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Delianys vs Della

American parents have registered 70,949 Dellas since 1880, against 5 Delianyses. Della is still ahead, with 533 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Delianys against Della, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Delianys Della

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

Della has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Delianys had 5 and Della had 120.

Side by side

  Delianys Della
Total US births 570,949
Most in one year 51,198
Babies in 2025 under 5533
Estimated living today 523,000
Median age today 1464
Peak year 20111917
Best rank 16,764th girls168th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked563rd
First recorded 20111880
Girls / boys 5 / 070,810 / 139

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 Dellas alive today are over 64; half the Delianyses are over 14. That is 50 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: Delianys and Della.