Dailee
Dailee was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,480 among girls’ names; 204 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dailee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dailee?
#8,480 among girls’ names, 2025
Dailee rose from #13,326 in 2015 to #8,480 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 7.5 per million.
15 babies in 2019, the peak
Dailee peaked in 2019, when 15 girls were given it, #7,440 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,480 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,059 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,830 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,991 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,342 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,661 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,440 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,200 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,140 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,257 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,326 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,396 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,159 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,819 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,397 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,473 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,033 | 3.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,754 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,909 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,703 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,998 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,896 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,589 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,929 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,661 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,230 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dailee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dailee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dailee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dailee, and how old are they?
An estimated 202 Americans named Dailee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 161 people named Dailee (157 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,734 babies since 1880, Dailee is the eighth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 133 babies (9.0%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Dailee
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 Dailee and names like it
- Compare Dailee and DayleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDailee peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Dailee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dailee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.