Dalayna
Dalayna was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 338 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 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 Dalayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalayna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,430, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2005, the peak
Dalayna peaked in 2005, when 20 girls were given it, #6,063 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #12,430 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,142 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,751 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,203 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,546 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,503 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,103 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,197 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,235 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,911 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | #9,288 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,373 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,544 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,210 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,613 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,348 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,063 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,929 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,657 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,362 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,309 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,673 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,829 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,823 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,115 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,788 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,922 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,119 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,740 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,833 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,759 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,533 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalayna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalayna, and how old are they?
An estimated 334 Americans named Dalayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Dalayna (295 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 4,288 babies since 1880, Dalayna is the sixth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 149 babies recorded by SSA was a Dalayna (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 Dalayna
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 Dalayna and names like it
- Compare Dalayna and DalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDalayna peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Dalayna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dalayna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.