Girls' name · since 2004
Dalainey
Dalainey has 18 recorded births since 2004 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #46,874 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,119 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2004
- 2020s
- peak decade
18 babies have been named Dalainey since 2004, making it today's #14119 girls' name.
Dalainey has 18 recorded births among girls since 2004, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14119 as of the latest data, more common than 18% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2004 to 2025.
- #46,874 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,119 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 18 born since 2004
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dalainey ranks #46,874 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,119 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 18 born since 2004, peaking in the 2020s.
- #46,874 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,119 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2004
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dalainey's 18 recorded births place it above 34.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Dalainey compares
18 7th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Dalainey's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Dalainey | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 18 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Dalainey's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Dalainey's SSA record in two at 2024 and the more recent half accounts for 72% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 28%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2004, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Dalainey popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Dalainey by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 72% of the file).
2020s was Dalainey's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 72% of all-time use.
Dalainey births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (72% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2004–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dalainey draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.