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Delaine

#15,487 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delaine has been given to 2,619 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #15,487 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Delaine, 2025

1 in 663,000

Delaine over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Delaine over time

In 2025, Delaine went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19192025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Delaine: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delaine means

Delaine is a given name.

The naming story behind Delaine

Wikidata records Delaine as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q100987634, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,377 girls were recorded with the name Delaine between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,166 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,709 in 2020 to #15,487 in 2025.

In the United States, 242 boys were recorded with the name Delaine between 1923 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1934; its best national rank was #1,794 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Delaine?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,487
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delaine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delaine was born before 1958 — so the typical Delaine is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,662
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (535).

Is Delaine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,581
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+222
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
7.7%
Peak was 1954 (65)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,166
1936

Spellings of Delaine

Delaine is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 46.8% against Delaine's 0.42%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Delaine is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Delaine was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 243,319 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 100,000
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Delaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Delaine is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Delaine was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 288,191 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Delaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delaine around the world

Where Delaine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1992–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Delaine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 222
Best rank ever
#1,166
1936
Peak year
1954
65 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,377
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,794
1934
Peak year
1934
16 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
242
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delaine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Delaine

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delaine, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Delaine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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