Dail vs Daisey
American parents have registered 2,520 Daiseys since 1880, against 604 Dails. Daisey is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dail Daisey
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 144 years in which either name was published, Daisey for 132 years and Dail for 12 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1880–1951 Daisey ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1952–1955 Dail ahead
- 1959–2025 Daisey ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dail | Daisey | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 604 | 2,520 |
| Most in one year | 29 | 55 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 20 |
| Estimated living today | 250 | 1,600 |
| Median age today | 72 | 28 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 1,648th boys | 2,672nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 5,917th |
| First recorded | 1912 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 145 / 459 | 2,520 / 0 |
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 Dails alive today are over 72; half the Daiseys are over 28. That is 44 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: Dail and Daisey.