Dailyn
Dailyn is given to both girls and boys: 64 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,700 among girls’ names and #5,431 among boys’, #4,086 among all names counting both); 2,288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,270 Americans named Dailyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dailyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dailyn?
#2,700 among girls’ names, 2025
Dailyn rose from #3,667 in 2015 to #2,700 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 39.8 per million.
231 babies in 2020, the peak
Dailyn peaked in 2020, when 231 babies were given it (208 girls, #1,140 among girls’ names). The 81 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,700 | 17 | #5,431 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,466 | 23 | #4,458 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,237 | 21 | #4,771 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,886 | 10 | #7,880 |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,499 | 19 | #4,963 |
| 2020 | 208 | #1,140 | 23 | #4,298 |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,351 | 22 | #4,509 |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,017 | 12 | #6,780 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,441 | 17 | #5,333 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,710 | 16 | #5,601 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,667 | 15 | #5,793 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,238 | 13 | #6,369 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,051 | 12 | #6,691 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,728 | 14 | #6,051 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,234 | 19 | #4,849 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,371 | 20 | #4,709 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,689 | 16 | #5,608 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,567 | 16 | #5,532 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,831 | 10 | #7,703 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,086 | 15 | #5,579 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,130 | 13 | #5,928 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,837 | 10 | #7,075 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,671 | 15 | #5,081 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,521 | 13 | #5,460 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,341 | 12 | #5,739 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,023 | 7 | #8,362 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,265 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,626 | 7 | #7,722 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,260 | 8 | #6,731 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,131 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,152 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,126 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,116 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,724 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,461 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,366 | 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 Dailyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,288 Americans recorded as Dailyn, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dailyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dailyn, and how old are they?
2,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,288 Americans ever recorded as Dailyn. The median Dailyn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,402 people named Dailyn (1,142 women and girls, 260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 763 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
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 Dailyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,642 | 1.0× |
| California | 9 | #2,138 | 0.8× |
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 Dailyn 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, Dailyn is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 346 babies (23%), again the third 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 Dailyn
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 Dailyn and names like it
- Compare Dailyn and DaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDailyn peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dailyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Dailyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dailyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.