Daylee
Daylee was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,985 among girls’ names; 466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daylee is “an unknown-gender given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daylee?
#7,985 among girls’ names, 2025
Daylee fell from #6,791 in 2015 to #7,985 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 8.1 per million.
27 babies in 2006, the peak
Daylee peaked in 2006, when 27 babies were given it (21 girls, #6,190 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,985 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,479 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,516 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,728 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,138 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,462 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,685 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,866 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,174 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,513 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,791 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,701 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,240 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,919 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,891 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,139 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,625 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,186 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,470 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,190 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,898 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,164 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,370 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,125 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,550 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,889 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,980 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,658 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,461 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,715 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,785 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,026 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,136 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 466 Americans recorded as Daylee, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Daylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daylee, and how old are they?
An estimated 462 Americans named Daylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 401 people named Daylee (372 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,832 babies since 1880, Daylee is the fifth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 127 babies (10%), 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 Daylee
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 Daylee and names like it
- Compare Daylee and DayleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaylee peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Daylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.