Dayle — #13516 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Dayle

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,181 babies named Dayle between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dayle currently holds the #13516 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 100 babies received it in a single year. Dayle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,139 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dayle performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 674 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Dayle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 123 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Dayle in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dayle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,181 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.