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Dalan

Dalan reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 2,782, and has been recorded 570 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 550 Dalans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Dalan

By the numbers

Total US births
570
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
24
Peak year
1998
Best rank
2,782nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1962

How old the living Dalans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 570 babies given the name since 1962, about 550 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Dalan is most common

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

Names of 1998

The most popular boys’ names the year Dalan peaked:

All the names of 1998

Related names

Dalan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.