Daley
Daley was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,991 among girls’ names; 624 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daley?
#8,991 among girls’ names, 2025
Daley rose from #10,311 in 2015 to #8,991 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.8 per million.
30 babies in 2002, the peak
Daley peaked in 2002, when 30 babies were given it (24 girls, #4,935 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,991 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,817 | 7 | #10,113 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,434 | 5 | #12,612 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,860 | 5 | #12,736 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,102 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,459 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,611 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,309 | 6 | #11,057 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,548 | 5 | #12,694 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,230 | 12 | #6,806 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,311 | 6 | #10,964 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,589 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,161 | 5 | #12,536 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,487 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,400 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,559 | 5 | #12,635 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,153 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,993 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,677 | 9 | #8,312 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,685 | 9 | #8,123 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,991 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,286 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,954 | 8 | #7,998 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,935 | 6 | #9,612 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,865 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,996 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,974 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,180 | 5 | #9,909 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,883 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,907 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,494 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,495 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,015 | 8 | #6,320 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,899 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,009 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,150 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,654 | 5 | #7,504 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,980 | 7 | #5,605 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,088 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,566 | 6 | #5,934 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,761 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #3,015 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,244 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,493 |
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 Daley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 624 Americans recorded as Daley, 76% are girls and 24% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daley, and how old are they?
An estimated 600 Americans named Daley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 671 people named Daley (445 women and girls, 226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Daley rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 20,361 babies since 1880, Daley is the third most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 405 babies (2.7%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Daley
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 Daley and names like it
- Compare Daley and DaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaley peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daley since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Daley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.