# Dell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,552 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,008 / 2,544 (39% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 24 | 2,466 |
| 1967 | 12 | 3,892 |
| 1968 | 14 | 3,653 |
| 1969 | 10 | 4,788 |
| 1970 | 17 | 3,621 |
| 1971 | 11 | 4,881 |
| 1972 | 16 | 3,753 |
| 1973 | 7 | 6,825 |
| 1974 | 10 | 5,440 |
| 1975 | 7 | 7,345 |
| 1977 | 5 | 9,972 |
| 1978 | 6 | 8,803 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,585 |
| 1982 | 6 | 9,513 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,808 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 14 | 5,645 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12,482 |
| 2008 | 5 | 12,990 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,114 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9,926 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,054 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,063 |
| 2014 | 8 | 8,969 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,004 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,047 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,813 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,198 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,654 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7,898 |
| 2025 | 6 | 10,978 |

## People named Dell

- Dell Curry, American basketball player (born 1964)
- Dell Hymes, American anthropologist and linguist (1927–2009)
- Dell Henderson, Canadian actor, writer and director (1877-1956)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.