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Daleyza vs Dall

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 6 Dalls. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dall

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 15 years in which either name was published, Daleyza for 14 years and Dall for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dall
Total US births 12,3386
Most in one year 1,4696
Babies in 2025 562under 5
Estimated living today 12,0001
Median age today 787
Peak year 20141938
Best rank 227th girls3,175th boys
Rank in 2025 538thunranked
First recorded 20121938
Girls / boys 12,338 / 00 / 6

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 Dalls alive today are over 87; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 80 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: Daleyza and Dall.