Delight

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#727highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#5785
2017	#5765
2019	#3151
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#4192

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 boys in England and Wales in 5 of the 16 years from 2009 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #2671 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2009–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #4527 among boys in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Delight appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 6 ranked years and 30 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 2009.

Delight 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.

Delight'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 · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#2671 (2024)	#2671 (2024)	5 of 16	22 (2009–2024)	8 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2011)	#2927 (2023)	#4192 (2024)	6 of 14	30 (2011–2024)	8 (2023)

Delight appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024.

Delight'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2009 and 2024, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #727, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 8 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 15 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
4 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#727position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
15 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
8births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 births →

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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Delilah · #32, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Advait · #727, 13y
Ayleen · #727, 11y
Braylon · #727, 11y
Cici · #727, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aafiyah · #727, 17y
Advait · #727, 13y
Aras · #727, 17y
Cass · #727, 19y

Delight was ranked #727 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Delight 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 Delight without appearing here.

Delight moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5765 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Delight

Delight at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Delight across 2 official records

Delight appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Delight

Delight and the names beside it

Delight moved ahead of

Delight at a glance

Delight across 2 official records

Delight appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Delight

Delight and the names beside it

Delight moved ahead of