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Delana

#9,007 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delana has been given to 4,089 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #9,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Delana, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delana means

Delana is a given name.

The naming story behind Delana

Wikidata records Delana as a given name. The entity identifier is Q50367485, 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, 4,089 girls were recorded with the name Delana between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,118 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,706 in 2020 to #9,007 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,704 in 2015 to #9,007 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 Delana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,007
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delana 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delana was born before 1978 — so the typical Delana is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,796
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (751).

Is Delana 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
−2,548
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,301
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,303
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.2%
Peak was 1969 (98)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,118
1969

Spellings of Delana

Delana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 21.6% against Delana's 0.24%.

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 Delana is used

Across 1910–2025, Delana was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 105,338 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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. Delana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delana around the world

Where Delana 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
    2014–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,417
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1979–1983
    #686
    in 1983

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.

Delana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,301
Best rank ever
#1,118
1969
Peak year
1969
98 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,089
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Delana

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

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Names with a curve like Delana

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

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Sibling names for Delana

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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