Delane
About 1,878 American babies have been named Delane since 1917, most of them around 1954. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,300 Delanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Delane boys named Delane
Girls and boys called Delane
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Delane crossed from boys to girls in 1946, and has stayed there for 14 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 68% girls, and in 1971 it was 47%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 31 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,878
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 1,949th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 955 / 923
How old the living Delanes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,878 babies given the name since 1917, about 1,300 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 20 of them are children and 540 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Delane is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular girls’ names the year Delane peaked:
Related names
Delane against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.