Dayleen
Dayleen was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,211 among girls’ names; 449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayleen?
#12,211 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayleen fell from #9,086 in 2015 to #12,211 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 4.4 per million.
95 babies in 2019, the peak
Dayleen peaked in 2019, when 95 girls were given it, #2,017 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,211 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,698 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,855 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,824 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,229 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,521 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,017 | 56.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,482 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,475 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,024 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,086 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,760 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,480 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,888 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,953 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,615 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,775 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,089 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,643 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,670 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,350 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,095 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,389 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,588 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,805 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,591 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,651 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 446 Americans named Dayleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 328 people named Dayleen (322 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 327 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,023 babies since 1880, Dayleen is the second most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 135 babies (5.2%), again the second most given.
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 Dayleen
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 Dayleen and names like it
- Compare Dayleen and DaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDayleen peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Dayleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dayleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.