Dalana
Dalana was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 635 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,835, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1977, the peak
Dalana peaked in 1977, when 19 girls were given it, #3,784 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,835 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,664 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,672 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,328 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,199 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,501 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,486 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,401 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,935 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,869 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | #9,616 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,815 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,969 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,443 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,367 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,099 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,199 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,897 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,148 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,247 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,449 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,882 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,705 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,157 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,206 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,611 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,630 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,008 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,191 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,624 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,653 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,978 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,704 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,419 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,532 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,935 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,273 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,541 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,363 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,829 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,803 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,784 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,671 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,192 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,032 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,693 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,127 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,673 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,125 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,648 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,825 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,512 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,244 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,139 | 5.8 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,401 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,995 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,454 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalana, and how old are they?
An estimated 609 Americans named Dalana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Dalana (592 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 6,035 babies since 1880, Dalana is the fifth most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 230 babies recorded by SSA was a Dalana (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dalana
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 Dalana and names like it
- Compare Dalana and DaleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDalana peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalana since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Dalana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dalana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.