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Deliah

#6,380 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Deliah has been given to 1,260 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #6,380 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Deliah, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deliah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deliah means

Deliah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Deliah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,260 girls were recorded with the name Deliah between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2011; its best national rank was #845 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,393 in 2020 to #6,380 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,163 in 2015 to #6,380 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Deliah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,380
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deliah 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deliahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deliah was born before 1991 — so the typical Deliah is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,040
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2010s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Deliah 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
−714
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,217
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2011 (34)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#845
1883

Spellings of Deliah

Deliah is not the most common spelling — Della is, with 17.6% against Deliah'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 Deliah is used

Across 1910–2025, Deliah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,626,889 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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

Deliah around the world

Where Deliah 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
    2017–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    2014–2014
    #7,471
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deliah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,380
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 13
Best rank ever
#845
1883
Peak year
2011
34 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,260
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Deliah

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

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Sibling names for Deliah

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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