girls:
94 births since 1995
#5622 (2nd percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1967
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
122 births since 1967
#7617 (2nd percentile)
The name Delancey is the #7,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,622 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1995. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1967.
Delancey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1995 for girls). Birth data for Delancey is available in 19 out of the 56 years between 1967 and 2022 (15 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Delancey has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Delancey were girls. Interestingly, until around 1998, the name was more popular for boys (82.1% boys from 1967 to 1997), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.7% girls from 1998 to 2022).
For girls, Delancey reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #953) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Delancey reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #767) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delancey".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Delancey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Delancey is pronounced as dih-LAN-see, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-LAN-see, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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