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Delila

#3,411 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Delilah

Delila has been given to 3,574 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,411 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Delila, 2025

1 in 73,700

Delila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Delilah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delila means

Delila is a form of Delilah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Delila → Delilah. The family’s meaning is “[she who] weakened”, recorded in English with the source elements d'līla.

Origin, language, and formation

Delila is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Delilah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,574 girls were recorded with the name Delila between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2008; its best national rank was #638 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,742 in 2020 to #3,411 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,689 in 2015 to #3,411 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 Delila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 35,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,411
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delila 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delila was born before 1989 — so the typical Delila is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,558
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (639).

Is Delila 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
+59
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+331
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−722
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2008 (118)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#638
1887

Spellings of Delila

Delila is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 28.6% against Delila's 0.29%.

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 Delila is used

Across 1910–2025, Delila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 118,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 100,000
  6. 6South Dakota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Delila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delila around the world

Where Delila 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
    2008–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2024
    #7,583
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2013
    #1,763
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Delila

People whose public names include Delila, 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.

Delila in other languages

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

DalilaDelilah

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

Delila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,411
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 331
Best rank ever
#638
1887
Peak year
2008
118 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,574
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Delila

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

DelanaDelenaDelaniDelinaDelailaDelfinaDelphiaDelanyDeltaDelcieDeliahDeliciaDelanieDelaineShailaDelisaDeloraDelylahDelainaLucilaDelylaDalilaDelphaDelainey

Names with a curve like Delila

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

AudrieArlynLeanaAngelynAllenaLilliaEllenaRoxyNaomieMaryannaAlonaEmelie

Sibling names for Delila

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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