Delaney

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Delaney: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Delaney: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #1,617 in 2001, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1617highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#2411
1998	#2701
1999	#3225
2000	#3247
2001	#1617
2003	#1996
2004	#2802
2005	#2438
2006	#3548
2007	#3667
2009	#5556
2010	#3533
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4050
2014	#5691
2015	#2328
2016	#2966
2017	#2341
2018	#2090
2019	#2643
2020	#2042
2021	#2073
2022	#2058
2023	#2504
2024	#2253

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1617 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Delaney appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 207 births with the name.

Delaney across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Delaney's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1617 (2001)	#2253 (2024)	27 of 29	207 (1996–2024)	13 (2018)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#2578 (2004)	#3688 (2024)	15 of 26	57 (1999–2024)	5 (2004)

Delaney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Delaney in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000s	51	8 of 10	6
2010s	74	10 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	61	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Delaney appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1617 in England and Wales in 2001.

Delaney's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,617, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Harini · #1617, 24y
Llio · #1617, 25y
Masooma · #1617, 26y
Mateen · #1617, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Breeze · #1617, 22y
Kubra · #1617, 22y
Llio · #1617, 25y
Masooma · #1617, 26y

Delaney and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Delaney without appearing here.

Delaney moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2090 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2090 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Delaney

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #3936.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3548 and #2137.
Ada Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2701 and #3142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3225 and #2189.

Moved the same way as Delaney

Brent Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Delaney went from #2943 to #4608 and Brent from #1027 to #4608.
Brooke Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Delaney went from #2943 to #4608 and Brooke from #1664 to #4608.
Garry Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Delaney went from #2943 to #4608 and Garry from #750 to #3848.
Tor Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Delaney went from #2943 to #4608 and Tor from #1281 to #2960.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1617 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Delaney

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Delaney across 2 official records

Delaney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Delaney across 2 official records

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