Delanie

#1,705 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delanie has been given to 5,176 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #1,705 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Delanie, 2025

1 in 27,600

Delanie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delanie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delanie means

Delanie is a given name.

The naming story behind Delanie

Wikidata records Delanie as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q98400126, 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, 5,176 girls were recorded with the name Delanie between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,078 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,688 in 2020 to #1,705 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,409 in 2015 to #1,705 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 Delanie?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 27,600; 120 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 13,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #1,705; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 19,150 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Delanie 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 19,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delanie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delanies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delanie was born before 2007 — so the typical Delanie is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5,171; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (1,678).

Is Delanie 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: −36; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −17; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −296; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.73×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 58.5%; Peak was 2003 (205)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,078; 2003

Spellings of Delanie

Delanie is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 65.2% against Delanie's 1.3%.

Melanie65.2%262,640
Delaney11.3%45,437
Jeanie4.3%17,148
Deanne3.7%14,851
Melani1.5%5,912
Lanie1.4%5,602
Melonie1.4%5,462
Delanie1.3%5,176

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 Delanie is used

Across 2016–2025, Delanie was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 14,234 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 in 8,333
2Texas1 in 9,091
3Indiana1 in 10,000
4Illinois1 in 11,111
5California1 in 12,500
6Florida1 in 14,286
7Nebraska1 in 14,286
8New York1 in 14,286

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.

Delanie around the world

Where Delanie 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
1998–2021
#5,581
in 2021
Canada
1993–2005
#2,213
in 2005
South Australia
1967–2009
#535
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 Delanie

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

Delanie WalkerAmerican football player
b. 1984
Delanie SheehanAssociation football player
b. 1999

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.

Delanie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #1,705
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 17
Best rank ever: #1,078; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 205 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,176
Count in 2025: 120

Names similar to Delanie

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

Delaynie Delphia Delfina Delicia Delaine Delana Delila Delylah Delaina Melonie Delphine Queenie Delena Delainey Eugenie Delani Delta Delina Delayna Journie Sydnie Johnie Delany Lennie

Names with a curve like Delanie

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

Harlie Ashtyn Grayson Karolina Estefany Maiya Emani Jaycie Annelise Miya Areli Niya

Sibling names for Delanie

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

For a sister

Hailie Iyanna Ashtyn Riya Aracely Estefany Kailee Coral

For a brother

Reagan Johnpaul Keon Alexandre Lazaro Jamarion Jaylon Cristobal

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