Delyla — #6025 US girls' name
667 babies named Delyla in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 66% of names given to girls today.
43% of everyone ever named Delyla was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Delyla in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Delyla
The Social Security Administration has registered 667 babies named Delyla between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delyla currently holds the #6025 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Delyla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 290 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Delyla shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Delyla in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Delyla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 667 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Delyla at a glance
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Current rank
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Delyla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1984
- Peak year (2008)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
Currently ranks #6025 among girls.
667 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 43 births in a single year.
Delyla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 290 births that decade — 43% of Delyla's all-time total
Delyla decade highlights
- Peak decade 290 births
- Runner-up 220 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Delyla's strongest decade
290 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Delyla by state
Where Delyla concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 72 | 10.8% |
| #2 | Texas | | 62 | 9.3% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.7% |
72 of 667 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.8% of nationwide
- Texas 9.3% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.