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Dalila vs Dalzary

American parents have registered 6,042 Dalilas since 1880, against 68 Dalzarys. Dalila is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dalila against Dalzary, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dalila 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

Dalila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1944 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Dalila had 172 and Dalzary had 44.

Side by side

  Dalila Dalzary
Total US births 6,04268
Most in one year 20744
Babies in 2025 13924
Estimated living today 5,90070
Median age today 191
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 1,207th girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 1,525th5,238th
First recorded 19442024
Girls / boys 6,042 / 068 / 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 Dalilas alive today are over 19; half the Dalzarys are over 1. That is 18 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: Dalila and Dalzary.