Delyn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Delyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 57 babies named Delyn between 1953 and 1987, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Delyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delyn performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Delyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delyn 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 57 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.