Dalylah
Dalylah was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,902 among girls’ names; 611 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalylah?
#4,902 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalylah fell from #4,517 in 2015 to #4,902 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 16.8 per million.
40 babies in 2019, the peak
Dalylah peaked in 2019, when 40 girls were given it, #3,735 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,902 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,332 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,925 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,692 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,868 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,667 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,735 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,170 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,405 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,653 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,517 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,922 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,556 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,406 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,711 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,326 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,835 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,605 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,152 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,064 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,092 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,837 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,551 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,009 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,909 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dalylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalylah, and how old are they?
An estimated 607 Americans named Dalylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 319 people named Dalylah (315 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 Dalylah?
Dalylah is a less common spelling of Dalila: SSA has recorded 611 Dalylah and 6,042 Dalila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,259 babies since 1880, Dalylah is the seventh most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 543 babies (5.0%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Dalylah
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 Dalylah and names like it
- Compare Dalylah and DalilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDalylah peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dalylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Dalylah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dalylah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.