Delilah
Delilah was given to 4,137 girls in 2025, #51 among girls’ names; 66,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 63,300 Americans named Delilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Delilah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Delilah is “a female given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “[she who] weakened” (דְּלִילָה).
Borrowed from Hebrew דְּלִילָה (d’līla, “[she who] weakened”).
/dɪˈlaɪlə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Delilah?
#51 among girls’ names, 2025
Delilah rose from #115 in 2015 to #51 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.5 to 2.6 per 1,000.
4,254 babies in 2024, the peak
Delilah peaked in 2024, when 4,254 girls were given it, #50 among girls’ names. The 4,137 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4,137 | #51 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 4,254 | #50 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 4,049 | #52 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 3,874 | #58 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 3,761 | #58 | 2.3 |
| 2020 | 3,424 | #70 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 3,158 | #88 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 3,012 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 2,898 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 2,743 | #115 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,740 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,514 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,347 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,096 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 1,838 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,672 | #187 | 0.94 |
| 2009 | 1,705 | #190 | 0.93 |
| 2008 | 1,741 | #193 | 0.92 |
| 2007 | 1,136 | #297 | 0.59 |
| 2006 | 539 | #547 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 487 | #585 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 473 | #595 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 438 | #611 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 354 | #706 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 379 | #664 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 358 | #674 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 355 | #649 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 242 | #871 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 225 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,140 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 155 | #1,130 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 138 | #1,249 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,158 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 136 | #1,225 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 192 | #902 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 219 | #800 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 185 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 236 | #732 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 225 | #728 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 252 | #677 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 159 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 115 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 159 | #940 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 196 | #806 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 154 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 151 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 136 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 132 | #953 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 147 | #881 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 156 | #837 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 104 | #1,090 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 131 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 170 | #814 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 91 | #1,171 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,479 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,541 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 80 | #1,228 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 110 | #1,025 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,051 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 139 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 111 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 131 | #892 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 158 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 172 | #738 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 148 | #791 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 156 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 214 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 228 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 184 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 131 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 96 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 90 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 55 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,191 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 62 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 78 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 142 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 80 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,153 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 55 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 57 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 63 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 53 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 54 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 52 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 53 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 63 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 53 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 59 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 77 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 71 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 64 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 61 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 61 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 63 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 64 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 72 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 62 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 65 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 52 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 50 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 49 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 33 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 24 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 30 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 29 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 21 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 22 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 20 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 18 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 22 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 16 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 21 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 24 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 28 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 16 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 18 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 15 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 21 | #646 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 19 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 20 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 28 | #486 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 20 | #583 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 20 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 19 | #579 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 14 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 15 | #576 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 12 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 17 | #507 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 11 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 10 | #602 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 10 | #546 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 10 | #554 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delilah, and how old are they?
63,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 66,683 Americans ever recorded as Delilah. The median Delilah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 33,704 people named Delilah (33,651 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 344 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,890 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42,700 |
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 Delilah born?
The states with the most babies named Delilah are California, Texas and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 564 | #40 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 485 | #42 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 242 | #60 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 178 | #40 | 0.7× |
| New York | 154 | #92 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 144 | #48 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 134 | #63 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 126 | #30 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 125 | #67 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 122 | #71 | 0.6× |
Where Delilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delilah is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Delilah 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 182,536 babies since 1880, Delilah is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 4,137 of their 4,962 babies (83%), the most given that year.
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 Delilah
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 Delilah and names like it
- Compare Delilah and DellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDelilah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delilah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Delilah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Delilah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.