first name
DELILAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 33,704 people named Delilah, 42.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 41.9% as White and 7.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Delilah peaked in 2024, when 4,254 babies got the name.
At least 66,683 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Delilah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #150. The largest share of babies named Delilah, 64.4%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Delilah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Delilah has been most common in Nevada (3.8×), Arizona (2.3×), and New Mexico (2.2×), and least common in North Dakota (0.32×).
61,355 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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