Delyla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Delyla by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Delyla. In the US, 24 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Delyla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Delyla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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Names that are said the same way as Delyla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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