Daylon
Daylon was given to 58 boys in 2025, #2,365 among boys’ names; 3,294 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,210 Americans named Daylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daylon?
#2,365 among boys’ names, 2025
Daylon rose from #2,415 in 2015 to #2,365 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.7 to 34.0 per million.
154 babies in 2002, the peak
Daylon peaked in 2002, when 154 boys were given it, #1,008 among boys’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,365 | 34.0 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,240 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,249 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,026 | 43.0 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,177 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,004 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,319 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,307 | 31.9 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,460 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,342 | 29.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #2,415 | 27.7 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,066 | 35.4 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,074 | 34.4 |
| 2012 | 97 | #1,602 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,798 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 93 | #1,668 | 48.5 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,474 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,536 | 51.5 |
| 2007 | 100 | #1,567 | 48.2 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,403 | 55.0 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,487 | 48.6 |
| 2004 | 133 | #1,172 | 67.0 |
| 2003 | 143 | #1,083 | 72.4 |
| 2002 | 154 | #1,008 | 79.3 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,230 | 55.6 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,142 | 61.6 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,099 | 63.0 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,222 | 52.3 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,168 | 54.6 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,147 | 54.4 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,264 | 44.6 |
| 1994 | 61 | #1,529 | 31.6 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,219 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,728 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,146 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,560 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,801 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,625 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,579 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,161 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,525 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,758 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,213 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,331 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,927 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,460 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,210 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,102 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,280 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,133 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,035 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,374 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,501 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,071 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,515 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,669 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,641 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,068 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,617 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,174 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,386 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,750 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,121 | 2.3 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,222 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,161 | 3.6 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,653 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daylon has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Daylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daylon, and how old are they?
3,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,294 Americans ever recorded as Daylon. The median Daylon alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,504 people named Daylon (64 women and girls, 2,440 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,858 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 801 |
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 Daylon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,137 | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #688 | 5.1× |
Where Daylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daylon is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1943 it was given 5.1 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 Daylon 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, Daylon is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 313 babies (19%), the second 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 Daylon
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 Daylon and names like it
- Compare Daylon and DallinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaylon peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daylon since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Daylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.