Delynn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Delynn

The Social Security Administration has registered 719 babies named Delynn between 1943 and 2011, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delynn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Delynn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1931.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delynn performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 267 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Delynn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 85 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Delynn in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delynn 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 719 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.