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Delainey

#1,390 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delainey has been given to 2,092 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,390 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Delainey, 2025

1 in 21,100

Delainey over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delainey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delainey means

Delainey is a given name.

The naming story behind Delainey

Wikidata records Delainey as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q136334369, 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, 2,092 girls were recorded with the name Delainey between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,350 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,792 in 2020 to #1,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,942 in 2015 to #1,390 in 2025.

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 Delainey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,100
157 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,390
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,637 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delainey 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,637 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delainey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delaineys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delainey was born before 2012 — so the typical Delainey is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,092
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (662).

Is Delainey 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
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,402
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,552
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.9%
Peak was 2024 (169)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,350
2024

Spellings of Delainey

Delainey is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 73.0% against Delainey's 0.58%.

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 Delainey is used

Across 2016–2025, Delainey was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 30,498 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 11,111
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 11,111
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 12,500
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  5. 5Maryland1 in 16,667
  6. 6Missouri1 in 16,667
  7. 7Michigan1 in 20,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 25,000

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.

Delainey around the world

Where Delainey 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.

  • England & Wales
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Delainey

People whose public names include Delainey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Delainey in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Delainey. Linked forms have their own page here.

Delaney

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Delainey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,402
Best rank ever
#1,350
2024
Peak year
2024
169 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,092
Count in 2025
157

Names similar to Delainey

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

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Names with a curve like Delainey

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

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Sibling names for Delainey

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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