Dilynn
Dilynn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,614 among girls’ names; 548 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 Dilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dilynn?
#9,614 among girls’ names, 2025
Dilynn fell from #3,933 in 2015 to #9,614 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 6.2 per million.
41 babies in 2011, the peak
Dilynn peaked in 2011, when 41 girls were given it, #3,739 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,614 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,012 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,739 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,520 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,762 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,007 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,231 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,318 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,836 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,366 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,933 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,024 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,535 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,866 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,739 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,282 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,838 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,108 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,157 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,805 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,909 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,501 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,131 | 10.4 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,013 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 548 Americans recorded as Dilynn, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Dilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dilynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 543 Americans named Dilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 473 people named Dilynn (395 women and girls, 78 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 2,108 babies since 1880, Dilynn is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 32 babies (31%), 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 Dilynn
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 Dilynn and names like it
- Compare Dilynn and DylannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDilynn peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dilynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Dilynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dilynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.