Dallyn — boys' name
214 babies named Dallyn in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Dallyn was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Dallyn in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dallyn
The Social Security Administration has registered 214 babies named Dallyn between 1992 and 2022, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dallyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Dallyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32 additional births since 2000.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dallyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dallyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dallyn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dallyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 214 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dallyn at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dallyn popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1992
- Peak year (2003)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
214 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 17 births in a single year.
Dallyn popularity over time — girls
32 total births recorded since 2000 (Dallyn as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Dallyn accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dallyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 107 births that decade — 50% of Dallyn's all-time total
Dallyn decade highlights
- Peak decade 107 births
- Runner-up 54 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Dallyn's strongest decade
107 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Dallyn by state
Where Dallyn concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Utah | | 10 | 4.7% |
10 of 214 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Utah 4.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 4.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.