Delilah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Delilah: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #32, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#32highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Delilah's record

England and Wales registered 1,194 births with the name in 2023, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#1234
1998	#1697
1999	#1557
2000	#1389
2001	#1107
2002	#1658
2003	#1383
2004	#1617
2005	#1406
2006	#816
2007	#504
2008	#408
2009	#434
2010	#451
2011	#328
2012	#238
2013	#214
2014	#179
2015	#166
2016	#142
2017	#128
2018	#90
2019	#76
2020	#62
2021	#50
2022	#44
2023	#32
2024	#33

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #54 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #160 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 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: #32 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #54 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Delilah appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 9,098 births with the name.

Delilah across 5 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.

Delilah'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	#3126 (1996)	#32 (2023)	#33 (2024)	29 of 29	9,098 (1996–2024)	1,194 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#907 (2012)	#160 (2025)	#160 (2025)	12 of 14	150 (2012–2025)	29 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#134 (2024)	#134 (2024)	9 of 11	68 (2014–2024)	15 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#93 (2020)	#54 (2025)	#54 (2025)	6 of 6	581 (2020–2025)	121 (2025)
New Zealand · Girls	#94 (2020)	#63 (2023)	#63 (2023)	3 of 4	146 (2020–2023)	61 (2023)

Delilah 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 Delilah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	40	4 of 10	10
2000s	400	10 of 10	40
2010s	3,448	10 of 10	345
2020sbusiest	5,210	5 of 10	1,042

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 1,042 births a year.

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

Delilah 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 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in England and Wales in 2023.

Delilah'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	#33	1,180	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#32	1,194	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#44	1,054	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#50	981	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#62	801	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#76	695	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#90	601	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#128	444	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#142	399	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#166	330	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#179	293	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#214	237	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#238	210	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#328	146	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#451	93	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#434	96	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#408	105	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#504	76	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#816	37	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1234	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#55	119	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#95	80	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#93	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#63	61	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#95	43	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#94	42	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#134	15	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#159	12	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#201	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#206	9	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#160	29	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#181	25	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#190	24	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#203	23	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#410	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#131	34	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
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 6 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #32, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 8 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,194 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 28 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.

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.

Delight · #727, 8y
Delila · #2689, 15y
Delilah-Mae · #918, 10y
Delilah-Rae · #888, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 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.

Archer · #32, 27y
Flynn · #32, 30y
Billie · #33, 35y
Frankie · #33, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Archer · #32, 27y
Flynn · #32, 30y
Tahlia · #32, 30y
Frankie · #33, 30y

Delilah was ranked #32 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. 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.

Delilah 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 Delilah without appearing here.

Delilah moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3126 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1234 and #3824.
Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1389 and #3912.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1389 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1107 and #3262.
Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1697 and #3848.

Moved ahead of Delilah

Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #238 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #214 and #160.
Maeve Compare
In 2020 they stood at #93 and #97 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 2021 that had become #95 and #78.

Moved the opposite way to Delilah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Delilah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Delilah went from #3126 to #33 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Delilah

Delilah at a glance

What stands out in Delilah's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Delilah across 5 official records

Delilah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Delilah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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What stands out in Delilah's record

Delilah across 5 official records

Delilah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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