Delicia
Delicia was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,631 among girls’ names; 2,559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Delicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 28 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delicia?
#13,631 among girls’ names, 2025
Delicia fell from #6,794 in 2015 to #13,631 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 3.7 per million.
101 babies in 1971, the peak
Delicia peaked in 1971, when 101 girls were given it, #1,149 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,631 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,837 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,475 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,910 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,323 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,402 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,275 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,794 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,593 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,132 | 9.7 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 21 | #6,169 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,835 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,829 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,133 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,680 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,495 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,713 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,272 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,109 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,141 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,203 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,565 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,032 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,791 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,311 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,385 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,099 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,738 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,668 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,999 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,522 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,595 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,796 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,172 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,070 | 31.4 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,047 | 31.1 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,058 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,292 | 25.6 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,159 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,279 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,192 | 27.2 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,939 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,726 | 39.1 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,859 | 35.5 |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,514 | 48.3 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,486 | 48.3 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,642 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 84 | #1,312 | 57.6 |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,317 | 55.2 |
| 1973 | 82 | #1,269 | 56.2 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,415 | 45.4 |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,149 | 60.7 |
| 1970 | 71 | #1,445 | 40.6 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,504 | 36.8 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,891 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,802 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,174 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,615 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,150 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,558 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,947 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,317 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,756 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,480 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,883 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,016 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,167 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,034 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,276 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,750 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,072 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,086 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delicia, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,559 Americans ever recorded as Delicia. The median Delicia alive today is 41 years old; half are between 28 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,325 people named Delicia (2,317 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,455 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 895 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 773 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 541 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 111 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Delicia born?
The states with the most babies named Delicia are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 280 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 57 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Delicia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delicia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1946 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Delicia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,433 babies since 1880, Delicia is the most given (58% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delicia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Delicia and names like it
- Compare Delicia and DelcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDelicia peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delicia since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Delicia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Delicia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.