Dalya
Dalya was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,484 among girls’ names; 556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalya?
#8,484 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalya fell from #6,518 in 2015 to #8,484 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 7.5 per million.
24 babies in 2005, the peak
Dalya peaked in 2005, when 24 girls were given it, #5,306 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,484 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,701 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,420 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,644 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,886 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,461 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,707 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,768 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,388 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,565 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,518 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,516 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,476 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,913 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,924 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,375 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,745 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,619 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,614 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,564 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,306 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,612 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,267 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,134 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,385 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,074 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,480 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,122 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,867 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,838 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,118 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,761 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,713 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,102 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,530 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,462 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,232 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,562 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,810 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,024 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,736 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,452 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,679 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,600 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalya, and how old are they?
An estimated 549 Americans named Dalya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Dalya (826 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 496 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Dalya?
Dalya is a less common spelling of Dahlia: SSA has recorded 556 Dalya and 19,359 Dahlia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,344 babies since 1880, Dalya is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 2,114 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Dalya
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 Dalya and names like it
- Compare Dalya and DahliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDalya peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Dalya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dalya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.