Delano
Delano reached its high-water mark in 1933 at number 302, and has been recorded 5,602 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,139th. About 3,900 Delanos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Delano boys named Delano
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,602
- Estimated living today
- 3,900
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1933
- Best rank
- 302nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,139th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 71 / 5,531
How old the living Delanos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,602 babies given the name since 1914, about 3,900 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 760 of them are children and 700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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.
Notable Delanos
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)president of the United States from 1933 to 1945
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1914–1988)American politician
- Delano Williams (born 1993)Sprint athlete from the Turks and Caicos Islands
People named Delano with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Delano is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Delano is most concentrated in Michigan (5.7×), North Dakota (4.7×), West Virginia (3.4×), Minnesota (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1933
The most popular boys’ names the year Delano peaked:
Delano elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Delano | 199 | 444th |
| England and Wales boys | Delano | 69 | 1,732nd |
| France boys | Delano | 15 | 4,566th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Delano: rank by region
In 2020, Delano was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Delano | 684 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Delano among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Delano | 2,065 | 3,433 |
| the Netherlands girls | Delano | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Delano against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.