Delani
#1,469 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delani has been given to 2,140 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,469 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 166 recorded.
Babies named Delani, 2025
1 in 22,700
Delani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Delani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,700
- 146 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,469
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,740 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delani sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 15,740 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Delanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delani was born before 2016 — so the typical Delani is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 36.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,068
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (761).
Is Delani 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
- −98
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +954
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,931
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 88.0%
- Peak was 2024 (166)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.1% average annual change
Spellings of Delani
Delani is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 40.0% against Delani's 0.31%.
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 Delani is used
Across 2016–2025, Delani was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 17,149 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 5,882
- 2Louisiana1 in 5,882
- 3Illinois1 in 9,091
- 4Florida1 in 10,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 6Texas1 in 14,286
- 7Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 8Tennessee1 in 16,667
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.
Delani around the world
Where Delani 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.
- Canada2019–2019#3,370in 2019
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Delani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Delani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Delani
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Delani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.