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Daegan vs Daesyn

American parents have registered 952 Daegans since 1880, against 82 Daesyns. Daegan is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daegan against Daesyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daegan Daesyn

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 31 years and Daesyn for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Daegan Daesyn
Total US births 95282
Most in one year 6619
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 94080
Median age today 173
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 2,185th boys5,019th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695thunranked
First recorded 19932018
Girls / boys 48 / 9040 / 82

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 Daesyns are over 3. That is 14 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: Daegan and Daesyn.