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Daylen vs Daymond

American parents have registered 4,330 Daylens since 1880, against 909 Daymonds. Daylen is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daylen Daymond

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

Of the 88 years in which either name was published, Daymond for 52 years and Daylen for 36 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Daylen Daymond
Total US births 4,330909
Most in one year 22827
Babies in 2025 1245
Estimated living today 4,300760
Median age today 1434
Peak year 20101977
Best rank 980th boys1,858th boys
Rank in 2025 1,529th12,008th
First recorded 19791917
Girls / boys 344 / 3,9860 / 909

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 Daymonds alive today are over 34; half the Daylens are over 14. That is 20 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: Daylen and Daymond.