Delilah
Delilah places #51 across the country in 2025, at or near its all-time peak. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 66,683 American bearers across the record.
Delilah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Delilah, 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.
Delilah since 1880
Delilah peaked in 2024 at #50; #51 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Delilah is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Delilah runs strongest in West Virginia at 0.65% in 2025, then Wyoming and Alaska.
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 Delilah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Dominic
#106 in 2025
Eloise
#49 in 2025
Maverick
#49 in 2025
Emilia
#45 in 2025 · Latin
Leilani
#60 in 2025
Ezekiel
#61 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elena
#42 in 2025 · Greek
Genesis
#66 in 2025
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About Delilah
How popular is the name Delilah?
Delilah places #51 across the country in 2025, at or near its all-time peak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Delilah?
Delilah postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Is there a sibling name for Delilah?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Dominic sits closest, with Eloise and Maverick just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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