Daylen
Daylen was given to 113 boys in 2025, #1,530 among boys’ names; 4,330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,280 Americans named Daylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daylen?
#1,530 among boys’ names, 2025
Daylen fell from #1,283 in 2015 to #1,530 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 72.5 to 66.2 per million.
228 babies in 2010, the peak
Daylen peaked in 2010, when 228 babies were given it (201 boys, #981 among boys’ names). The 124 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,530 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 142 | #1,344 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,349 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 178 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,420 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,211 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,295 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,315 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 150 | #1,242 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 139 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,371 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,046 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 201 | #981 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 179 | #1,056 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 175 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 117 | #1,400 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,362 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,456 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,233 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,543 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,388 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,901 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,908 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,304 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,254 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,347 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,825 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,504 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,330 Americans recorded as Daylen, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 113 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daylen, and how old are they?
4,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,330 Americans ever recorded as Daylen. The median Daylen alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,066 people named Daylen (420 women and girls, 2,646 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,435 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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 Daylen born?
The states with the most babies named Daylen are Texas, Georgia and Illinois, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,577 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 11 | #804 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 10 | #820 | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 8 | #379 | 3.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,178 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #950 | 1.2× |
| California | 5 | #2,552 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,897 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 5 | #975 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | #792 | 1.4× |
Where Daylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daylen is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1979 it was given 3.1 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 Daylen 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, Daylen is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 313 babies (40%), the 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 Daylen
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 Daylen and names like it
- Compare Daylen and DallinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDaylen peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Daylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.