girls:
71 births since 1932
#5645 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.5k births since 1914
#1614 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1914
#3655 (53rd percentile)
The name Delano is the #3,655 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,546 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 52.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,614 (64.8% percentile) for all time with 5,475 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,645 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 71 births since 1932.
Delano first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1932 for girls). Birth data for Delano is available in 99 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (99 years for boys and 9 years for girls). 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 Delano has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Delano reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 46.2% percentile (ranked #281) with 310 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 310 births per million (ranked 46.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Delano ranks #865 for boys (5.1% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Delano reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #565) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delano".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Delano. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Delano is pronounced as DEH-luh-noh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-LAH-noh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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