Daelyn — #2472 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Daelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,598 babies named Daelyn between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Daelyn currently holds the #2472 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 93 babies received it in a single year. Daelyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 800 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Daelyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 607 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Daelyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 163 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Daelyn in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Daelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,598 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.