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Daelynn vs Daevon

American parents have registered 1,000 Daelynns since 1880, against 995 Daevons. Daelynn is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daelynn Daevon

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 40 years in which either name was published, Daevon for 22 years and Daelynn for 18 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Daelynn Daevon
Total US births 1,000995
Most in one year 5363
Babies in 2025 1610
Estimated living today 990980
Median age today 1321
Peak year 20072000
Best rank 3,376th girls1,758th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th7,679th
First recorded 19961983
Girls / boys 936 / 640 / 995

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 Daevons alive today are over 21; half the Daelynns are over 13. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daelynn and Daevon.