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Daleyza vs Dalvin

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 1,645 Dalvins. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dalvin

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 69 years in which either name was published, Dalvin for 55 years and Daleyza for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dalvin
Total US births 12,3381,645
Most in one year 1,469179
Babies in 2025 56213
Estimated living today 12,0001,600
Median age today 729
Peak year 20141993
Best rank 227th girls790th boys
Rank in 2025 538th6,446th
First recorded 20121921
Girls / boys 12,338 / 00 / 1,645

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 Dalvins alive today are over 29; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 22 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Daleyza Dalvin
England and Wales 312

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daleyza and Dalvin.