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Dailyn

The girl's name Dailyn has been in the national records since 1975, with 2,288 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st. About 2,300 Dailyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Dailyn boys named Dailyn

Girls and boys called Dailyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,873 girls and 415 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 64 to 17.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 28 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,288
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
8
Peak year
2020
Best rank
1,140th
Rank in 2025
2,691st
First recorded
1975
Girls / boys
1,873 / 415

How old the living Dailyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,288 babies given the name since 1975, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Dailyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dailyn is most concentrated in Texas (3.5×), Florida (2.9×), California (2.9×), Georgia (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2020

The most popular girls’ names the year Dailyn peaked:

All the names of 2020

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Dailyn against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.