Delaine
Delaine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195465 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1919
- 2,614people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,372 girls have been named Delaine in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 65 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 242 boys have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delaine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 119 | |
| 1930s | 240 | |
| 1940s | 350 | |
| 1950s | 535 | |
| 1960s | 483 | |
| 1970s | 213 | |
| 1980s | 138 | |
| 1990s | 122 | |
| 2000s | 106 | |
| 2010s | 43 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Delaine was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Delaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carleenpeak 1961
- Charlenepeak 1952
- Joettapeak 1954
- Delanepeak 1954
- Hermelindapeak 1953
- Jacqualinepeak 1964
- Karleenpeak 1964
- Annitapeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.