Dellie
Feminine
Dellie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 634 girls against 11 boys since 1880.
Dellie is a pet form from the early American record, most likely of Della or Adela, a quick friendly name of two syllables. Its fuller relatives include a medieval countess who shamed her husband back to the Crusade and the most loyal secretary in American detective fiction.
How old is the name Dellie?
Dellie first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Dellie alive today was born around 1916, making them about 109 years old. Fewer than a hundred people named Dellie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Dellie most popular?
Dellie peaked in 1882, reaching #740 nationally. See the whole 1882 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dellie
Dellie has the sound of a name called across a porch, and it belongs to a large family. Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror, ruled the county of Blois while her husband was on the First Crusade — and when he fled the siege of Antioch and came home, she sent him back, and he died in the Holy Land. Centuries later Della Street, Perry Mason's secretary, stood by her employer through more than eighty novels. Dellie keeps the warmth of both and leaves the formality behind.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Dellie may be a pet form of Della, Adela, Adeline or Delilah; the record holds it alone, without the longer name.
Pronouncing Dellie
DEL-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first.
Nicknames for Dellie
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 192819 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #740reached in 1882
- Change vs 1958
- 0.0%6 in 1963, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dellies among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Dellie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Dellie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Friendly and easy to say.
- Can be paired with a formal name such as Adela or Della.
- Very rare, so a Dellie is unlikely to share her name.
- People will assume it is a nickname and ask for the full name.
- It sounds like 'deli', which some children will joke about.
- The spelling is recorded for a handful of boys too, but it is a girl's name in every tradition behind it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dellies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Dellie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Dellie in 2025?
- Dellie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Dellie with classmates?
- Dellie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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