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Dalana vs Daleyza

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 635 Dalanas. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dalana against Daleyza, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dalana Daleyza

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 64 years in which either name was published, Dalana for 50 years and Daleyza for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dalana Daleyza
Total US births 63512,338
Most in one year 191,469
Babies in 2025 under 5562
Estimated living today 61012,000
Median age today 357
Peak year 19772014
Best rank 3,761st girls227th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked538th
First recorded 19472012
Girls / boys 635 / 012,338 / 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 Dalanas alive today are over 35; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 28 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: Dalana and Daleyza.