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How popular is “Delaney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Delaney” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Delaney” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Delaney” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Delaney” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Delaney” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Delaney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Delaney” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 5 5 0%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 5 12 -41%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 18 0.000004483 7 11 -22%
1956 11 0.000002668 5 6 -9%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 14 0.00000338 5 9 -29%
1962 14 0.000003469 5 9 -29%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 16 0.000004603 8 8 0%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 13 0.000003741 5 8 -23%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 -100%
1971 29 0.000008449 11 18 -24%
1972 36 0.000011454 15 21 -17%
1973 36 0.000011933 14 22 -22%
1974 31 0.000010197 19 12 23%
1975 31 0.000010267 21 10 35%
1976 29 0.000009557 15 14 3%
1977 35 0.000011018 19 16 9%
1978 38 0.000011973 20 18 5%
1979 46 0.000013826 25 21 9%
1980 30 0.00000871 13 17 -13%
1981 35 0.000010117 25 10 43%
1982 33 0.000009407 24 9 45%
1983 31 0.000008951 24 7 55%
1984 38 0.000010892 22 16 16%
1985 41 0.000011487 28 13 37%
1986 40 0.000011245 28 12 40%
1987 43 0.000011926 28 15 30%
1988 54 0.000014614 45 9 67%
1989 116 0.000030173 99 17 71%
1990 198 0.000050095 180 18 82%
1991 241 0.00006187 225 16 87%
1992 334 0.00008695 307 27 84%
1993 434 0.000115111 418 16 93%
1994 513 0.00013799 484 29 89%
1995 838 0.000228827 820 18 96%
1996 1105 0.000302973 1080 25 95%
1997 1148 0.000316624 1120 28 95%
1998 1428 0.000388233 1400 28 96%
1999 1491 0.000403642 1459 32 96%
2000 1565 0.000414032 1538 27 97%
2001 1603 0.000428221 1583 20 98%
2002 1782 0.000476688 1765 17 98%
2003 1875 0.00049312 1856 19 98%
2004 2030 0.000531285 2002 28 97%
2005 1842 0.000479083 1828 14 98%
2006 1832 0.000463072 1815 17 98%
2007 1704 0.000426247 1689 15 98%
2008 1638 0.000416723 1622 16 98%
2009 1407 0.000368308 1388 19 97%
2010 1504 0.000406955 1486 18 98%
2011 1354 0.000370169 1337 17 97%
2012 1276 0.000348885 1260 16 97%
2013 1290 0.000353845 1278 12 98%
2014 1240 0.000334559 1232 8 99%
2015 1333 0.000360181 1328 5 99%
2016 1216 0.000331453 1207 9 99%
2017 1277 0.000357083 1266 11 98%
2018 1330 0.000378282 1315 15 98%
2019 1167 0.000336221 1158 9 98%
2020 1041 0.000311623 1024 17 97%
2021 1177 0.000347408 1164 13 98%
2022 1258 0.000371844 1253 5 99%
2023 1305 0.000394117 1287 18 97%
2024 1440 0.000432627 1432 8 99%

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