boys:
478 births since 1931
#4108 (10th percentile)
overall:
478 births since 1931
#7261 (6th percentile)
The name Delray is the #7,261 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 478 recorded births since 1931. This represents the 6.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,108 (10.4% percentile) for all time with 478 births since 1931.
Delray first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1931 (first recorded for boys in 1931). Birth data for Delray is available in 60 out of the 88 years between 1931 and 2018. 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 boys, Delray reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #642) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delray".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Delray. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.4% confident that Delray is pronounced as DEHL-ray, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEHL-RAY, at 31.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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