Dell
Dell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 468th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195384 births
- Best rank
- #468in 1880
- Since 1880
- 6,546people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,002 boys have been named Dell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1953, with 84 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 84 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Dell is used for both sexes: 39% of its bearers are girls (2,544), most of them born around 1954.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 123 | |
| 1890s | 97 | |
| 1900s | 79 | |
| 1910s | 312 | |
| 1920s | 407 | |
| 1930s | 464 | |
| 1940s | 549 | |
| 1950s | 711 | |
| 1960s | 599 | |
| 1970s | 254 | |
| 1980s | 147 | |
| 1990s | 108 | |
| 2000s | 81 | |
| 2010s | 43 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1953, its biggest year
Dell was the 776th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1953 were Robert, James, Michael, John and David. See all of 1953.
Names that rose and fell with Dell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Corneliouspeak 1921
- Guypeak 1957
- Willampeak 1959
- Burtpeak 1956
- Irapeak 1947
- Williampeak 1947
- Fritzpeak 1956
- Tompeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
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.