Dalila
Dalila was given to 139 girls in 2025, #1,528 among girls’ names; 6,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,890 Americans named Dalila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dalila mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Dalila is “a female given name, equivalent to English Delilah”
Borrowed from Latin Dalila, itself ultimately from Biblical Hebrew דְּלִילָה (D’līla).
/ˈda.li.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dalila?
#1,528 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalila rose from #1,625 in 2015 to #1,528 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 73.9 to 86.5 per million.
207 babies in 2009, the peak
Dalila peaked in 2009, when 207 girls were given it, #1,209 among girls’ names. The 139 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,528 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 172 | #1,331 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,363 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,686 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,946 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,680 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,844 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,488 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 132 | #1,625 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,466 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,325 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,559 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 157 | #1,447 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 207 | #1,209 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 206 | #1,228 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,390 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 180 | #1,300 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,369 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,396 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,543 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,627 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,686 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,660 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,515 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,193 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,049 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,979 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,848 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,670 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,781 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,816 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,700 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,757 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,686 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,753 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,741 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,674 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,827 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,988 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,751 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,521 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,106 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,482 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,825 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,575 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,318 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,676 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,171 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,536 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,716 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,190 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,990 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,055 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,953 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,763 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalila, and how old are they?
5,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,042 Americans ever recorded as Dalila. The median Dalila alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 8,048 people named Dalila (8,033 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 185 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 620 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,760 |
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).
Where are babies named Dalila born?
The states with the most babies named Dalila are California, Texas and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,057 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,370 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,461 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,246 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,282 | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,165 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,216 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,441 | 0.1× |
| Utah | 5 | #732 | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #871 | 0.0× |
Where Dalila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dalila is most over-represented in California: since 1944 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dalila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,923 babies since 1880, Dalila is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 139 of their 2,299 babies (6.0%), the fourth 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 Dalila
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 Dalila and names like it
- Compare Dalila and DahliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDalila peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalila since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Dalila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dalila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dalila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.