Girls' name · since 2008
Dalyah
Dalyah has 82 recorded births since 2008 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2016 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,326 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 82
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Dalyah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 82 have been recorded since 2008.
Dalyah has 82 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2023.
- #29,326 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 82 born since 2008
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dalyah ranks #29,326 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 82 born since 2008, peaking in the 2010s.
- #29,326 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 82
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Dalyah's 82 recorded births place it above 59.31% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dalyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Dalyah's SSA record in two at 2016 and the more recent half accounts for 54% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 46%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2008, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2016 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Dalyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2023
- Peak year (2016)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2023.
82 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 11 births in a single year.
Dalyah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (67 births, 82% of the file).
2010s was Dalyah's strongest decade.
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 82% of all-time use.
Dalyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
67 births
- 2020s 10
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 67 births (82% of all-time use).
Dalyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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What to do with Dalyah's data
- Dalyah's decade-level peak was the 2010s (67 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dalyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2016)
Similar record span (~15 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dalyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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