Delight
Delight was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,051 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delight by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delight?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,493, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1946, the peak
Delight peaked in 1946, when 32 girls were given it, #1,562 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,493 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,908 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,372 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,627 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,814 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,149 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,969 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,219 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,241 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,798 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #7,927 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,067 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,950 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,662 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,325 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,245 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,051 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,730 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,682 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,227 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,954 | 7.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,600 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,278 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,087 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,808 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,000 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,701 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,322 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,331 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,825 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,294 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,874 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,996 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,231 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,845 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,987 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,532 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,375 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,605 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,539 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,735 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,285 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,616 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,829 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,562 | 20.4 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,775 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,115 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,087 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,818 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,066 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,454 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,753 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,137 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,799 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,964 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,679 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,490 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,296 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,769 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,895 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,893 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,963 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,915 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,738 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,734 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,817 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,334 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,037 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,516 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,998 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,191 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,094 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,303 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,736 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,817 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,423 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,058 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,744 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,261 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,501 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,500 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,910 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,881 | 18.8 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,699 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,241 | 34.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,607 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delight a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delight has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delight: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delight, and how old are they?
An estimated 490 Americans named Delight and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 49 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Delight (665 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delight
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 Delight and names like it
- Compare Delight and HerminiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDelight peaked in 1946.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Delight.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delight alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.