Dallen
Dallen was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,432 among boys’ names; 1,215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Dallen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dallen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dallen?
#5,432 among boys’ names, 2025
Dallen fell from #4,746 in 2015 to #5,432 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 10.0 per million.
53 babies in 2008, the peak
Dallen peaked in 2008, when 53 boys were given it, #2,409 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,432 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,003 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,909 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,060 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,821 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,368 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,871 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,962 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,695 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,841 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,746 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,566 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,595 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,386 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,529 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,554 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,060 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,409 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,825 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,039 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,396 | 14.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,495 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,280 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,300 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,435 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,142 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,104 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,239 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,175 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,335 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,212 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,954 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,584 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,924 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,125 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,071 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,648 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,091 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,575 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,924 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,970 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,304 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,673 | 4.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,584 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,919 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,635 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,723 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,159 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,061 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,012 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,420 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,108 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dallen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dallen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Dallen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dallen, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,215 Americans ever recorded as Dallen. The median Dallen alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,061 people named Dallen (31 women and girls, 1,030 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 273 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 611 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 246 |
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 Dallen born?
The states with the most babies named Dallen are Utah, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 249 | not ranked | 15.6× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Dallen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dallen is most over-represented in Utah: since 1959 it was given 15.6 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 boys’ 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 Dallen 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 21,009 babies since 1880, Dallen is the seventh most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 313 babies (5.4%), the fifth 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 Dallen
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 Dallen and names like it
- Compare Dallen and DallinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDallen peaked in 2008.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dallen since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dallen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dallen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.