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Daelyn vs Daevion

American parents have registered 2,499 Daelyns since 1880, against 570 Daevions. Daelyn is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daelyn against Daevion, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daelyn Daevion

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

Daelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Daelyn had 87 and Daevion had 49.

Side by side

  Daelyn Daevion
Total US births 2,499570
Most in one year 13049
Babies in 2025 1017
Estimated living today 2,500560
Median age today 1216
Peak year 20112008
Best rank 2,073rd girls2,542nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,100th9,714th
First recorded 19861998
Girls / boys 1,650 / 8490 / 570

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 Daevions alive today are over 16; half the Daelyns are over 12. That is 4 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: Daelyn and Daevion.