Delanee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- deh-LAY-nee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Delanee is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “dark challenge”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Delanee mean?
Irish: spelling of Delanie, itself a spelling of Delaney, an Irish surname
“dark challenge”
Delaney anglicizes the Irish surname Ó Dubhshláine, 'descendant of Dubhshláine'.
Meaning borrowed from Delanie.
Is Delanee a girl's or a boy's name?
Delanee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Delanee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Delanee, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Delanee in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 496 girls in the US were given Delanee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #600, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Delanee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,484 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,307 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,890 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
Nicknames for Delanee
- Laney 12 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Delanee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Cassidy Brynlee Kennedy Mckenna Devyn Brylee Brynn Rowan Reagan Bree Braylee
Other spellings of Delanee
Names related to Delanee
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, “Delanee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/delanee, updated 20 October 2026.