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Daylen vs Daysia

American parents have registered 4,330 Daylens since 1880, against 720 Daysias. Daylen is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daylen Daysia

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 1996, when Daylen had 43 and Daysia had 39.

Side by side

  Daylen Daysia
Total US births 4,330720
Most in one year 22850
Babies in 2025 124under 5
Estimated living today 4,300710
Median age today 1423
Peak year 20102001
Best rank 980th boys2,881st girls
Rank in 2025 1,529thunranked
First recorded 19791992
Girls / boys 344 / 3,986720 / 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 Daysias alive today are over 23; half the Daylens are over 14. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Daysia.