Dalilah
Dalilah was given to 197 girls in 2025, #1,175 among girls’ names; 5,135 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Dalilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalilah?
#1,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalilah rose from #1,177 in 2015 to #1,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 0.12 per 1,000.
263 babies in 2008, the peak
Dalilah peaked in 2008, when 263 girls were given it, #1,007 among girls’ names. The 197 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,175 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 238 | #1,050 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 219 | #1,121 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 210 | #1,158 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 210 | #1,163 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,094 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 190 | #1,235 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 202 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 179 | #1,308 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 235 | #1,094 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 214 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 240 | #1,071 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 253 | #990 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 253 | #1,002 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 225 | #1,093 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,037 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 257 | #1,019 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 263 | #1,007 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,345 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,743 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,989 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,146 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,332 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,486 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,677 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,584 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,252 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,208 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,371 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,989 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,612 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,726 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,971 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,902 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,115 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,526 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,626 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,425 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,369 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,667 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,233 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalilah, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,135 Americans ever recorded as Dalilah. The median Dalilah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,892 people named Dalilah (2,889 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,790 |
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 Dalilah born?
The states with the most babies named Dalilah are California, Texas and Illinois, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #838 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 29 | #986 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 14 | #679 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,070 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 9 | #975 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 8 | #654 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 7 | #987 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 7 | #964 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,269 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,166 | 0.4× |
Where Dalilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dalilah is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 2.1 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 Dalilah 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 29,727 babies since 1880, Dalilah is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 867 babies (23%), the second 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 Dalilah
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 Dalilah and names like it
- Compare Dalilah and DaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDalilah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalilah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dalilah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dalilah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.