girls:
69.8k births since 1880
#472 (92nd percentile)
boys:
139 births since 1888
#4447 (3rd percentile)
overall:
69.9k births since 1880
#871 (89th percentile)
The name Della is the #871 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,892 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #472 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 69,753 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,447 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1888.
Della has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1888 for boys).
The name Della has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Della reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 76.7% percentile (ranked #67) with 3,278 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 4,330 births per million (ranked 73.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Della ranks #538 for girls (43.2% percentile) with 258 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Della reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #547) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Della".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Della. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Della is pronounced as DEH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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