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Dalia vs Dalzary

American parents have registered 14,297 Dalias since 1880, against 68 Dalzarys. Dalia is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dalia Dalzary

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 2024, when Dalia had 315 and Dalzary had 44.

Side by side

  Dalia Dalzary
Total US births 14,29768
Most in one year 51644
Babies in 2025 34024
Estimated living today 13,00070
Median age today 241
Peak year 19942024
Best rank 485th girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 799th5,238th
First recorded 19132024
Girls / boys 14,291 / 668 / 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 Dalias alive today are over 24; half the Dalzarys are over 1. That is 23 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: Dalia and Dalzary.