Daly — #12535 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Daly

The Social Security Administration has registered 308 babies named Daly between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Daly currently holds the #12535 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Daly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Daly performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Daly shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Daly 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 308 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.