How Many People Are Named Delight?
people named Delight are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 682,205 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,051 babies named Delight in Social Security records from 1897 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
32 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means simply "delight, happiness" from the English word.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Delight in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Delight alive today is about 60 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 48 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Delight first appears in the records in 1897 and was given most often in 1946, to 32 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1897 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Delight has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,241, in 1902.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,241 (1902) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,910 in the 1930s |
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