Dalena
Dalena was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,274 among girls’ names; 1,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Dalena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalena?
#10,274 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalena fell from #7,717 in 2015 to #10,274 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.6 per million.
50 babies in 1993, the peak
Dalena peaked in 1993, when 50 girls were given it, #2,493 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,274 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,005 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,433 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,995 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,101 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,458 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,673 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,308 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,465 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,562 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,717 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,588 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,439 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,878 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,430 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,374 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,934 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,211 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,562 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,970 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,990 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,611 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,118 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,717 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,236 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,674 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,991 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,416 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,251 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,852 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,690 | 25.6 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,664 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,493 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,688 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,455 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,731 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,230 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,739 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,979 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,907 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,420 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,934 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,209 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,201 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,380 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,872 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,453 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,804 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,785 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,567 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,979 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,067 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,810 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,578 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,868 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,076 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,777 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,478 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,231 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,245 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,939 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,400 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,362 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,055 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,745 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,593 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,273 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,129 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,952 | 3.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,455 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,099 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalena, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,109 Americans ever recorded as Dalena. The median Dalena alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,044 people named Dalena (1,044 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 68 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 219 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 303 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,838 babies since 1880, Dalena is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 118 babies (7.6%), again the second 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 Dalena
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 Dalena and names like it
- Compare Dalena and DaleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDalena peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalena since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dalena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dalena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.