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Delaine

Recorded 1919–2025 · United States

Delaine was most popular in 1954, when 71 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,986 that year. In 2025 it ranked #24,763, with 5 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,619 people named Delaine.

Most popular in1954
Rank that year#1,986
Births that year71
Total since 18802,619
Given to91% girls
Alive today~1,000
Median age63
OriginFrench

Delaine over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Delaine’s peak in 1954. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Delaine?

Delaine first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1919, which makes it about 106 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 100 of the 107 years since.

How many people are named Delaine?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,619 American births named Delaine between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,879 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Delaine in 2025?

5 American babies were named Delaine in 2025, ranking #24,763 that year.

Is Delaine getting more or less popular?

Delaine is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Delaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Delaine is mostly a girl’s name — 90.8% of the 2,619 Americans given it were girls and 9.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Delaine?

Roughly 1,879 Americans named Delaine are alive today — 72% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 63 years old, and half are between 48 and 73.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Delaine is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org