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Dalia vs Dalon

American parents have registered 14,297 Dalias since 1880, against 767 Dalons. Dalia is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dalia Dalon

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 1992, when Dalia had 141 and Dalon had 22.

Side by side

  Dalia Dalon
Total US births 14,297767
Most in one year 51639
Babies in 2025 340under 5
Estimated living today 13,000740
Median age today 2425
Peak year 19941996
Best rank 485th girls2,145th boys
Rank in 2025 799thunranked
First recorded 19131960
Girls / boys 14,291 / 60 / 767

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.

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