Delila

girls:

3.5k births since 1880

#2933 (49th percentile)

overall:

3.5k births since 1880

#4643 (40th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Delila is the #4,643 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,474 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 40.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,933 (48.7% percentile) for all time with 3,474 births since 1880.

Delila has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Delila is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.

For girls, Delila reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #871) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 84 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Delila ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 33.2% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delila".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
3,474
Peak Births
118
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
11.5%
Current Percentile
4.7%
Peak Rank
#871
Current Rank
#903
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Delila

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Delila. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 41.3% confident that Delila is pronounced as dih-LAI-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-LEE-luh, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.

deh-LEE-luh (3 syllables)
Verified
21.7% confidence
D EH0 L IY1 L AH0
dih-LEE-luh (3 syllables)
8.7% confidence
D IH0 L IY1 L AH0
dee-LEE-luh (3 syllables)
6.5% confidence
D IY0 L IY1 L AH0
deh-LAI-luh (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
D EH0 L AY1 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D IH0 L AY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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