Dalyla
Dalyla was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,171 among girls’ names; 618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalyla?
#6,171 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalyla fell from #3,860 in 2015 to #6,171 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 11.8 per million.
42 babies in 2009, the peak
Dalyla peaked in 2009, when 42 girls were given it, #3,752 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,171 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,006 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,592 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,187 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,267 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,568 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,830 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,910 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,550 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,030 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,860 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,484 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,929 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,002 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,676 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,770 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,752 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,678 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,615 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,586 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,993 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,368 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,100 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,929 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,298 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,079 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,940 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,237 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 613 Americans named Dalyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 401 people named Dalyla (401 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Dalyla?
Dalyla is a less common spelling of Dalila: SSA has recorded 618 Dalyla and 6,042 Dalila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,882 babies since 1880, Dalyla is the seventh most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 834 babies (2.3%), again the seventh 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 Dalyla
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 Dalyla and names like it
- Compare Dalyla and DalilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDalyla peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dalyla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dalyla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.