Dayla
Dayla was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,908 among girls’ names; 2,066 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Dayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayla?
#2,908 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayla rose from #3,144 in 2015 to #2,908 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.7 to 36.1 per million.
87 babies in 2022, the peak
Dayla peaked in 2022, when 87 girls were given it, #2,177 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,908 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,268 | 50.6 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,501 | 44.2 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,177 | 53.0 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,403 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,103 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,099 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,171 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,062 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,388 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,144 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,048 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,914 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,604 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,619 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,789 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,098 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,025 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,260 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,945 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,060 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,968 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,238 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,825 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,724 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,678 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,907 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,393 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,728 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,478 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,063 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,719 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,035 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,097 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,229 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,730 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,545 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,920 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,011 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,254 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,126 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,949 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,533 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,016 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,326 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,035 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,670 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,285 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,268 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,680 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,197 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,587 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,021 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,856 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,983 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,084 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,785 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,236 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,080 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,961 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,954 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,415 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,974 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,603 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,313 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,239 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,144 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,538 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,150 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,849 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,105 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,854 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayla, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,066 Americans ever recorded as Dayla. The median Dayla alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,452 people named Dayla (1,438 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 182 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 767 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 743 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dayla born?
The states with the most babies named Dayla are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,077 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,859 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,955 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,106 babies since 1880, Dayla is the fifth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 2,057 babies (2.8%), the fourth 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 Dayla
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 Dayla and names like it
- Compare Dayla and DahliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDayla peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Dayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.