Dail — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dail

The Social Security Administration has registered 459 babies named Dail between 1912 and 1993, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dail currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Dail is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 145 additional births since 1936.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dail performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Dail shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Dail in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dail 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 459 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.