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Delano

#4,161 in 2025Boys' name

Wetland, swamp

Delano has been given to 5,602 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,161 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1933, with 316 recorded.

Babies named Delano, 2025

1 in 133,000

Delano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delano: meaning, origin, and history

Wetland, swamp

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delano means

Delano means “wetland, swamp”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,531 boys were recorded with the name Delano between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 316 in 1933; its best national rank was #302 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,939 in 2020 to #4,161 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,532 in 2015 to #4,161 in 2025.

In the United States, 71 girls were recorded with the name Delano between 1932 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1933; its best national rank was #2,295 in 1933.

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 Delano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,161
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delano was born before 1973 — so the typical Delano is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,789
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Choose a decade

1930s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (1,151).

Is Delano 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
−536
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,222
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,629
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.9%
Peak was 1933 (316)
Years since peak
92
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#302
1933

Spellings of Delano

Delano is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 53.5% against Delano's 0.71%.

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 Delano is used

Across 1910–2025, Delano was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 71,402 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 14,286
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 20,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 33,333
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 33,333
  6. 6Alabama1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Delano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delano around the world

Where Delano 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
    2003–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2008
    #4,566
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1999–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Delano

People whose public names include Delano, 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.

Delano in other languages

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

Del

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

Delano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,161
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,222
Best rank ever
#302
1933
Peak year
1933
316 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,531
Count in 2025
25

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,295
1933
Peak year
1933
13 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delano

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

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Names with a curve like Delano

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

LavonArlenDarvinSherwinJerrelNilsDentonRosendoAmadorBlasReymundoAbelardo

Sibling names for Delano

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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