Delaney
31,364 people in the United States were counted with the surname Delaney in the 2020 census, making it the 1,101st most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,530.
By the numbers
- People
- 31,364
- Rank
- 1,101st
- How common
- 1 in 9,530
- Per 100,000
- 10.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old French
From a Norman baronial surname, from a place in France, Old French del aunaie (“from the alder grove”). In Ireland an anglicization of Irish Ó Dubhshláine (descendant of Black (dubh) + Challenge (slán)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Delaney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Delaney
- Thomas Delaney (born 1991)Danish association football player
- Kim Delaney (born 1961)American actress
- Brian T. Delaney (born 1976)American actor
- Rob Delaney (born 1977)American comedian and actor
- Joseph Delaney (1945–2022)British writer
- Damien Delaney (born 1981)Irish association football player
- Shelagh Delaney (1938–2011)English dramatist and screenwriter
- Malcolm Delaney (born 1989)American basketball player
People named Delaney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Delaney
Also a first name
Delaney has been given to 46,650 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.