Delaney
The 2025 national count puts Delaney at #242, sitting where it has sat for years. Its record runs from 1939 through a 2004 peak, 45,437 children in all.
Delaney’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Delaney, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Delaney since 1939
Delaney peaked in 2004 at #169; #242 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Delaney is most common
Among the states, Delaney takes its largest share in Maine, 0.35% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with South Dakota and Delaware next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Delaney
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Dominic
#106 in 2025
Camille
#240 in 2025 · Latin
Arianna
#234 in 2025
Mackenzie
#228 in 2025
Alaina
#224 in 2025
Elise
#223 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zachary
#216 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abraham
#209 in 2025
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About Delaney
How popular is the name Delaney?
The 2025 national count puts Delaney at #242, sitting where it has sat for years. The full curve since 1939 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Delaney have a meaning on record?
There is no citable gloss for Delaney in our public-domain source. We show the chart, the related names and the kit, and leave the etymology to a reference you can check.
Is there a sibling name for Delaney?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Dominic sits closest, with Camille and Arianna just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Delaney’s free Name Kit
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