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Daleyssa vs Dallas

American parents have registered 87,085 Dallases since 1880, against 127 Daleyssas. Dallas is still ahead, with 1,888 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daleyssa against Dallas, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daleyssa Dallas

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

Dallas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Daleyssa had 21 and Dallas had 1,971.

Side by side

  Daleyssa Dallas
Total US births 12787,085
Most in one year 211,971
Babies in 2025 under 51,888
Estimated living today 13070,000
Median age today 923
Peak year 20152025
Best rank 6,036th girls238th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked238th
First recorded 20131880
Girls / boys 127 / 015,882 / 71,203

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 Dallases alive today are over 23; half the Daleyssas are over 9. That is 14 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: Daleyssa and Dallas.