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Delicia

#13,631 in 2025Girls' name

Delight, pleasure

Delicia has been given to 2,559 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #13,631 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Delicia, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delicia: meaning, origin, and history

Delight, pleasure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delicia means

Delicia means “delight, pleasure”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Delicia is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /də.ˈlɪʃ.ə/ for Delicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,559 girls were recorded with the name Delicia between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,149 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,475 in 2020 to #13,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,794 in 2015 to #13,631 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 Delicia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,631
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delicia 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delicia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delicias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delicia was born before 1984 — so the typical Delicia is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,544
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (753).

Is Delicia 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,156
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,837
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 1971 (101)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,149
1971

Spellings of Delicia

Delicia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 51.4% against Delicia's 0.57%.

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 Delicia is used

Across 1910–2025, Delicia was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 121,162 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Delicia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delicia around the world

Where Delicia 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
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1901–2024
    #5,164
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1946–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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.

Delicia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,156
Best rank ever
#1,149
1971
Peak year
1971
101 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,559
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Delicia

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

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Names with a curve like Delicia

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

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Sibling names for Delicia

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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