girls:
672 births since 1915
#5044 (12th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1909
#1861 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.9k births since 1909
#3880 (50th percentile)
The name Del is the #3,880 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,948 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 49.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,861 (59.4% percentile) for all time with 4,276 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,044 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 672 births since 1915.
Del first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 1915 for girls).
The name Del has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Del were boys.
For boys, Del reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 20.2% percentile (ranked #523) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 66 births per million (ranked 20.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Del ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Del reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #721) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Del".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Del is pronounced as dehl, which has 1 syllables.
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