Delainy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- deh-LAY-nee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Delainy is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “dark challenger”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Delainy mean?
Irish: spelling of Delainee, itself a spelling of Delaney, from O Dubhshlaine
“dark challenger”
A spelling of Delaney, which comes from an Irish surname.
Meaning borrowed from Delainee.
Is Delainy a girl's or a boy's name?
Delainy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Delainy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Delainy, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2006, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Delainy in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 496 girls in the US were given Delainy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #600, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Delainy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Nicknames for Delainy
- Laney 12 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Delainy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassidy, Kennedy, Teagan, Mckenna, Devyn, Heavenly, Rowan, Brynlee, Reagan, Brianny, Keely, Keiry
Other spellings of Delainy
Names related to Delainy
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Callan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Delainy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/delainy, updated 20 October 2026.