Daly
Daly was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daly?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,464, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2002, the peak
Daly peaked in 2002, when 21 girls were given it, #5,496 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,464 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,124 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,545 | 5 | #12,738 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,354 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,460 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,101 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,206 | 5 | #12,571 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,072 | 5 | #12,462 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,201 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,236 | 5 | #12,539 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #8,745 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,572 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,636 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,689 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,872 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,861 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,659 | 7 | #9,781 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,091 | 6 | #10,362 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,891 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,550 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,496 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,310 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,968 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,654 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,861 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,938 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,827 | 5 | #9,295 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,789 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,390 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,340 | 5 | #8,989 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,375 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,443 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,492 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Daly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 356 Americans recorded as Daly, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daly, and how old are they?
An estimated 352 Americans named Daly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Daly (521 women and girls, 197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,630 babies since 1880, Daly is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 494 babies recorded by SSA was a Daly (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Daly
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 Daly and names like it
- Compare Daly and DaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaly peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Daly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.