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Delon

#5,438 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Delon has been given to 1,416 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #5,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Delon, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delon means

Delon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Delon is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,378 boys were recorded with the name Delon between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,594 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,224 in 2020 to #5,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,063 in 2015 to #5,438 in 2025.

In the United States, 38 girls were recorded with the name Delon between 1966 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1972; its best national rank was #5,579 in 1972.

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 Delon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,438
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delon 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delon was born before 1992 — so the typical Delon is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,309
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Delon 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
+1,925
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,786
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+625
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.5%
Peak was 1993 (40)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,594
1973

Spellings of Delon

Delon is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 21.2% against Delon's 0.07%.

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 Delon is used

Across 1910–2025, Delon was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 371,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

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

Delon around the world

Where Delon 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
    2011–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #464
    in 1987

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.

Delon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,786
Best rank ever
#1,594
1973
Peak year
1993
40 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,378
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,579
1972
Peak year
1972
9 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delon

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

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Sibling names for Delon

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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