Daegan vs Dael
American parents have registered 952 Daegans since 1880, against 582 Daels. But in 2025 it was Dael that was commoner, 74 babies to 6.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Daegan Dael
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 33 years in which either name was published, Daegan for 25 years and Dael for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Daegan | Dael | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 952 | 582 |
| Most in one year | 66 | 74 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | 74 |
| Estimated living today | 940 | 580 |
| Median age today | 17 | 5 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 2,185th boys | 2,020th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | 2,020th |
| First recorded | 1993 | 2003 |
| Girls / boys | 48 / 904 | 5 / 577 |
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 Daegans alive today are over 17; half the Daels are over 5. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Daegan Texas (9.3×)
- Dael Texas (5.6×), California (3.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Daegan | Dael |
|---|---|---|
| France | 60 | 160 Daël |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daegan and Dael.