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Daleyza vs Dalylah

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 611 Dalylahs. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dalylah

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 25 years in which either name was published, Daleyza for 14 years and Dalylah for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dalylah
Total US births 12,338611
Most in one year 1,46940
Babies in 2025 56227
Estimated living today 12,000610
Median age today 710
Peak year 20142019
Best rank 227th girls3,718th girls
Rank in 2025 538th4,878th
First recorded 20122001
Girls / boys 12,338 / 0611 / 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 Dalylahs alive today are over 10; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 3 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: Daleyza and Dalylah.