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Dacia vs Dacoda

American parents have registered 2,712 Dacias since 1880, against 661 Dacodas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dacia against Dacoda, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dacia Dacoda

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Dacia for 66 years and Dacoda for 6 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Dacia Dacoda
Total US births 2,712661
Most in one year 10455
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,600650
Median age today 4025
Peak year 19771998
Best rank 1,183rd girls2,068th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211990
Girls / boys 2,712 / 0117 / 544

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dacias alive today are over 40; half the Dacodas are over 25. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dacia and Dacoda.