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Daelynn vs Daesyn

American parents have registered 1,000 Daelynns since 1880, against 82 Daesyns. Daelynn is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daelynn against Daesyn, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daelynn 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

Daelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1996 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Daelynn had 36 and Daesyn had 19.

Side by side

  Daelynn Daesyn
Total US births 1,00082
Most in one year 5319
Babies in 2025 16under 5
Estimated living today 99080
Median age today 133
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 3,376th girls5,019th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838thunranked
First recorded 19962018
Girls / boys 936 / 640 / 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 Daelynns alive today are over 13; half the Daesyns are over 3. That is 10 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: Daelynn and Daesyn.