Dailey
Dailey was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,214 among girls’ names; 385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dailey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dailey?
#7,214 among girls’ names, 2025
Dailey rose from #17,059 in 2015 to #7,214 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 9.3 per million.
18 babies in 2016, the peak
Dailey peaked in 2016, when 18 babies were given it (13 girls, #8,499 among girls’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,214 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,066 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,328 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,130 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,993 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,258 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,727 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,891 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,499 | 5 | #12,589 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,059 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,751 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,051 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,306 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,570 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,624 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,867 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #12,900 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,947 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,655 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,124 | 5 | #11,795 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,397 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,188 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,983 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,913 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,143 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,648 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,663 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,993 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,907 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,821 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,065 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,305 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,836 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,411 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,648 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,182 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,069 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #3,888 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 7 | #3,359 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,639 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,445 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,478 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,317 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,988 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 5 | #1,158 |
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 Dailey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 385 Americans recorded as Dailey, 74% are girls and 26% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dailey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dailey, and how old are they?
An estimated 314 Americans named Dailey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 425 people named Dailey (271 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 6,632 babies since 1880, Dailey is the fifth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 139 babies (11%), the fourth 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.
More about Dailey and names like it
- Compare Dailey and DayleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDailey peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Dailey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dailey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.