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Dal

The boy's name Dal has been in the national records since 1915, with 628 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 370 Dals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Dal

By the numbers

Total US births
628
Estimated living today
370
Median age today
61
Peak year
1957
Best rank
1,791st
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1915

How old the living Dals are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 628 babies given the name since 1915, about 370 are alive — 59 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 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 Dal is most common

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

Names of 1957

The most popular boys’ names the year Dal peaked:

All the names of 1957

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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.