Delynne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delynne has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1957, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Delynne, 1969
1 in 695,000
Delynne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Delynne?
Delynne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1969
- 1 in 695,000
- 5 of 3,475,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 337,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1969
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,756 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delynne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delynne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Delynnes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delynne was born before 1959 — so the typical Delynne is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Delynne 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 1957 (8)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Delynne
Delynne is not the most common spelling — Lynne is, with 54.6% against Delynne's 0.03%.
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.
Delynne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Delynne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Delynne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.