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Dilara vs Dillan

American parents have registered 7,387 Dillans since 1880, against 521 Dilaras. Dillan is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dilara against Dillan, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dilara Dillan

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

Dillan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Dilara had 31 and Dillan had 37.

Side by side

  Dilara Dillan
Total US births 5217,387
Most in one year 35341
Babies in 2025 3137
Estimated living today 5207,200
Median age today 1222
Peak year 20241992
Best rank 4,114th girls553rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,460th3,848th
First recorded 19891975
Girls / boys 521 / 0393 / 6,994

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 Dillans alive today are over 22; half the Dilaras are over 12. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dilara Dillan
England and Wales 533916
France 1,32570
Scotland 691

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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