Dalen
About 1,987 American babies have been named Dalen since 1941, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 1,900 Dalens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,987
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 1,316th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1941
- Girls / boys
- 16 / 1,971
How old the living Dalens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,987 babies given the name since 1941, about 1,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 560 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Dalen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dalen is most concentrated in Indiana (5.3×), Texas (3.6×), Georgia (2.6×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Dalen peaked:
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Dalen 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.