Daelyn
Daelyn is given to both girls and boys: 52 girls and 49 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,112 among girls’ names and #2,651 among boys’, #3,510 among all names counting both); 2,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Daelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daelyn?
#3,112 among girls’ names, 2025
Daelyn fell from #2,720 in 2015 to #3,112 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 32.4 per million.
130 babies in 2011, the peak
Daelyn peaked in 2011, when 130 babies were given it (93 girls, #2,073 among girls’ names). The 101 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,112 | 49 | #2,651 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,465 | 40 | #3,059 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,201 | 37 | #3,238 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,904 | 37 | #3,225 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,789 | 36 | #3,253 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,397 | 36 | #3,146 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,487 | 34 | #3,362 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,258 | 43 | #2,807 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,161 | 35 | #3,257 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,772 | 37 | #3,118 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,720 | 40 | #2,927 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,237 | 35 | #3,164 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,050 | 31 | #3,421 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,106 | 36 | #3,123 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,073 | 37 | #3,060 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,945 | 39 | #2,969 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,535 | 30 | #3,567 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,810 | 23 | #4,289 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,794 | 33 | #3,318 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,574 | 27 | #3,696 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,373 | 25 | #3,732 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,640 | 16 | #5,051 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,304 | 19 | #4,302 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,744 | 26 | #3,364 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,638 | 7 | #8,479 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,220 | 16 | #4,616 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,451 | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,666 | 7 | #7,716 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,542 | 13 | #4,710 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,905 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,784 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,125 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,321 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Daelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,499 Americans recorded as Daelyn, 66% are girls and 34% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daelyn, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,499 Americans ever recorded as Daelyn. The median Daelyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,601 people named Daelyn (1,116 women and girls, 485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,874 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Daelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Daelyn are California, Texas and Ohio, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,674 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,823 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,126 babies since 1880, Daelyn is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 346 babies (29%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daelyn and names like it
- Compare Daelyn and DaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDaelyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Daelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Daelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.