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Deleah

Gender
Girl
Say it
duh-LEE-uh
Origin
Modern

Deleah is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Deleah come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps De- and Leah

Is Deleah a girl's or a boy's name?

Deleah is a girls' name.

How popular is Deleah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.

Half of all the girls named Deleah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1972Busiest: 14 in 20192024
Deleah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
20237#12,192
20220–
20210–
20208#11,085
201914#7,712
20188#11,422
20177#12,709
201610#10,109
20159#10,861
20148#11,925
20130–
20126#14,956
20119#11,175
20108#12,270
20099#11,454
20080–
20070–
20066#15,147
20057#13,003
200411#9,259
20037#12,401
20020–
20010–
20000–
199911#8,216
19980–
19977#10,831
19960–
19955#13,380
19946#11,771
19930–
19920–
19910–
19905#12,952
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19835#10,272
19825#10,514
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19725#8,290

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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, “Deleah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/deleah, updated 20 October 2026.