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Daleyza vs Dallie

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 598 Dallies. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dallie

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 65 years in which either name was published, Dallie for 51 years and Daleyza for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dallie
Total US births 12,338598
Most in one year 1,46922
Babies in 2025 56210
Estimated living today 12,000240
Median age today 711
Peak year 20141916
Best rank 227th girls1,949th girls
Rank in 2025 538th9,457th
First recorded 20121888
Girls / boys 12,338 / 0588 / 10

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 Dallies alive today are over 11; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 4 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 Dallie.