Delan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delan has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Delan, 2023
1 in 414,000
Delan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Delan?
Delan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 214,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Delans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delan was born before 2007 — so the typical Delan is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 180
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (75).
Is Delan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (13)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.4% average annual change
Spellings of Delan
Delan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 15.2% against Delan's <0.01%.
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.
Delan around the world
Where Delan 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 & Wales2005–2016#4,810in 2016
- France1929–2012#5,581in 2012
- South Australia1995–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Delan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Delan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Delan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.