Della

What Della means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Della yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,155 in 2015, #563 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Della?

US: Rising: up from #1155 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2070 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1881, when 428 girls got the name (#60 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,016 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,170 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (2.96 per 1,000 girls), SD (2.29 per 1,000 girls), MT (2.12 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Della is #563 in the US and #1079 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Della were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dolly113 US · 144 E&W
• Dayla58 US
• Daila54 US
• Dally28 US
• Dela19 US · 7 E&W
• Dilly0 US · 11 E&W
• Dila5 US · 5 E&W
• Dellah7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Della

Girls

• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Esther#119“star”^*

For a brother

• Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Nico#174Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Della’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.