Delontay
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delontay has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Delontay, 2016
1 in 524,000
Delontay over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Delontay?
Delontay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delontay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delontay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Delontays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delontay was born before 1992 — so the typical Delontay is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 66.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 36
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Delontay 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (8)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.9% average annual change
Spellings of Delontay
Delontay is not the most common spelling — Deontae is, with 18.0% against Delontay's 0.18%.
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 Delontay is used
Across 1910–2025, Delontay was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 527,727 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 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. Delontay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Delontay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Delontay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Delontay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.