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Daylen vs Daymian

American parents have registered 4,330 Daylens since 1880, against 671 Daymians. Daylen is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daylen Daymian

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

Daylen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Daylen had 122 and Daymian had 37.

Side by side

  Daylen Daymian
Total US births 4,330671
Most in one year 22845
Babies in 2025 12414
Estimated living today 4,300660
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 980th boys2,702nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,529th6,143rd
First recorded 19791992
Girls / boys 344 / 3,9860 / 671

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.

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