Daylan
Daylan was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,576 among boys’ names; 2,913 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,860 Americans named Daylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daylan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daylan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daylan?
#2,576 among boys’ names, 2025
Daylan fell from #1,782 in 2015 to #2,576 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.3 to 29.9 per million.
132 babies in 2006, the peak
Daylan peaked in 2006, when 132 babies were given it (123 boys, #1,332 among boys’ names). The 51 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,576 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,320 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,034 | 43.3 |
| 2022 | 77 | #1,983 | 44.1 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,659 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,271 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,979 | 41.2 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,035 | 39.1 |
| 2017 | 82 | #1,822 | 44.3 |
| 2016 | 85 | #1,792 | 44.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #1,782 | 44.3 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,735 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,904 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,834 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,722 | 45.3 |
| 2010 | 89 | #1,719 | 46.4 |
| 2009 | 86 | #1,762 | 43.4 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,365 | 61.3 |
| 2007 | 87 | #1,723 | 41.9 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,332 | 59.8 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,419 | 52.1 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,425 | 49.9 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,224 | 60.2 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,270 | 55.1 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,369 | 47.9 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,416 | 44.3 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,670 | 32.8 |
| 1998 | 62 | #1,667 | 32.4 |
| 1997 | 70 | #1,498 | 37.1 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,671 | 30.1 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,734 | 26.8 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,642 | 28.5 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,126 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,849 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,239 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,217 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,326 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,557 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,312 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,533 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,116 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,989 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,594 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,806 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,615 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,051 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,262 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,200 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,938 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,733 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,913 Americans recorded as Daylan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 51 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daylan, and how old are they?
2,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,913 Americans ever recorded as Daylan. The median Daylan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,242 people named Daylan (160 women and girls, 2,082 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 385 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 935 |
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 Daylan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,783 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,126 | 0.9× |
Where Daylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daylan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1971 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Daylan 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 21,009 babies since 1880, Daylan is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 313 babies (16%), the third 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 Daylan
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 Daylan and names like it
- Compare Daylan and DallinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaylan peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daylan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Daylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.