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Delaney vs Dellar

American parents have registered 46,650 Delaneys since 1880, against 571 Dellars. Delaney is still ahead, with 1,295 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Delaney against Dellar, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Delaney Dellar

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Delaney for 87 years and Dellar for 53 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Delaney Dellar
Total US births 46,650571
Most in one year 2,03021
Babies in 2025 1,295under 5
Estimated living today 46,00040
Median age today 1783
Peak year 20041900
Best rank 169th girls803rd girls
Rank in 2025 242ndunranked
First recorded 19121880
Girls / boys 45,437 / 1,213571 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dellars alive today are over 83; half the Delaneys are over 17. That is 66 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Delaney and Dellar.