Delaney

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Primarily a girl's name · 93% girls

Meaning

Delaney is a unisex given name, a transferred use of a surname with Norman French or Irish origins. It was in use for both boys and girls in the Southern United States by the 1850s and has since been in regular use as a given name in the Anglosphere.

From Wikipedia

Delaney first appears in the data in 1991 and has been recorded in 34 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1998 with 108 babies (rank #264 that year). In 2024 it was given to 45 girls (rank #636). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

Numerology of Delaney

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Delaney yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

2,001
Total babies (all years)
34
Years in the data
108
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
199118#992
199242#576
199342#574
199443#522
199558#464
199689#315
199785#323
1998108#264
199988#317
200097#290
200189#313
200273#367
200390#324
200489#332
200583#355
200664#460
200760#493
200853#565
200947#617
201053#548
201148#599
201238#723
201324#1,045
201437#750
201528#923
201637#760
201738#746
201837#759
201936#781
202023#1,079
202139#731
202227#960
202337#743
202445#636