girls:
38 births since 1966
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1932
#3274 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1932
#6355 (18th percentile)
The name Delon is the #6,355 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,388 recorded births since 1932. This represents the 17.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,274 (28.6% percentile) for all time with 1,350 births since 1932. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1966.
Delon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1932 (1932 for boys and 1966 for girls). Birth data for Delon is available in 77 out of the 92 years between 1932 and 2023 (77 years for boys and 6 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 Delon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Delon reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #734) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Delon ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 22.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Delon reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #739) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delon".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Delon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.3% confident that Delon is pronounced as deh-LAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-luhn, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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