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Dalia vs Dallan

American parents have registered 14,297 Dalias since 1880, against 750 Dallans. Dalia is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dalia against Dallan, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dalia Dallan

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

Dalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1938, when Dalia had 15 and Dallan had 7.

Side by side

  Dalia Dallan
Total US births 14,297750
Most in one year 51634
Babies in 2025 3405
Estimated living today 13,000710
Median age today 2424
Peak year 19942008
Best rank 485th girls3,286th boys
Rank in 2025 799th12,008th
First recorded 19131938
Girls / boys 14,291 / 60 / 750

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.

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 Dalia Dallan
France 2,5005
England and Wales 7943
Ireland 2528

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: Dalia and Dallan.