Delyla
Delyla was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,176 among girls’ names; 686 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delyla?
#6,176 among girls’ names, 2025
Delyla fell from #4,164 in 2015 to #6,176 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 11.8 per million.
43 babies in 2008, the peak
Delyla peaked in 2008, when 43 girls were given it, #3,726 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,176 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,998 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,609 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,274 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,038 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,671 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,188 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,043 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,217 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,480 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,164 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,377 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,792 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,294 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,099 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,124 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,960 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,726 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,590 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,936 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,905 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,861 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,464 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,942 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,273 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,713 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,953 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,353 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,392 | 6.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,602 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,421 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 680 Americans named Delyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Delyla (478 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Delyla?
Delyla is a less common spelling of Delilah: SSA has recorded 686 Delyla and 66,683 Delilah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 181,885 babies since 1880, Delyla is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 4,954 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Delyla
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 Delyla and names like it
- Compare Delyla and DelilahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDelyla peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Delyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Delyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.