Delany is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Delany is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Delany. In the SmartGenius ranking, Delany is #2,933 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Delany.
In fact, the name Delany did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Delany seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,198, 73 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Delany, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Delany was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Delany in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 425 women and girls named Delany, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 425 women and girls named Delany live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New York. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Delany. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Delany lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Delany and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Delany relative to its female population is Texas. And even there, only one in 66,305 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Delany.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Delany is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Delany and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Delany, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Delany
Delany
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
L
A
N
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
L
A
N
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Delany sounds like this:
