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Daelynn vs Daevion

American parents have registered 1,000 Daelynns since 1880, against 570 Daevions. Daelynn is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daelynn 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

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Daelynn for 28 years and Daevion for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Daelynn Daevion
Total US births 1,000570
Most in one year 5349
Babies in 2025 167
Estimated living today 990560
Median age today 1316
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 3,376th girls2,542nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th9,714th
First recorded 19961998
Girls / boys 936 / 640 / 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 Daelynns are over 13. That is 3 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 Daevion.