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Dalyn

The boy's name Dalyn has been in the national records since 1955, with 1,306 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 1,300 Dalyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dalyn boys named Dalyn

Girls and boys called Dalyn

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: 389 girls and 917 boys in all, and in 2020 the split was 6 to 22.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 24 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
1,306
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
22
Peak year
2002
Best rank
2,295th
Rank in 2025
6,446th
First recorded
1955
Girls / boys
389 / 917

How old the living Dalyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,306 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Dalyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dalyn is most concentrated in Texas (7.3×).

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

Names of 2002

The most popular boys’ names the year Dalyn peaked:

All the names of 2002

Related names

Dalyn 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.