Delray
Delray was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 478 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delray?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,619, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1960, the peak
Delray peaked in 1960, when 20 boys were given it, #1,824 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #12,619 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,153 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,713 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,866 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,080 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,772 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,060 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,756 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,332 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,174 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #7,992 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,713 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,831 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,263 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,306 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,778 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,959 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,641 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,506 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,602 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,312 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,499 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,500 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,261 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,074 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,630 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,630 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,076 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,083 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,588 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,672 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,169 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,047 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,247 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,391 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,705 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,446 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,891 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,345 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,824 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,286 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,686 | 4.6 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,268 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,486 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,944 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,447 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,277 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,406 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,398 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,652 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,152 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,427 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,663 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,621 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,525 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,496 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,641 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,976 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,800 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,897 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delray has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delray, and how old are they?
An estimated 367 Americans named Delray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 38 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 445 people named Delray (47 women and girls, 398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 395 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,895 babies since 1880, Delray is the second most given (25% 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 Delray
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 Delray and names like it
- Compare Delray and DelroyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDelray peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Delray.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Delray alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.