Dayle
About 3,320 American babies have been named Dayle since 1912, most of them around 1946. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,200 Dayles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dayle boys named Dayle
Girls and boys called Dayle
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Dayle crossed from boys to girls in 1939, and has stayed there for 25 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 44 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
- 3,320
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1946
- Best rank
- 828th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 2,181 / 1,139
How old the living Dayles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,320 babies given the name since 1912, about 2,200 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 50 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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.
Notable Dayles
- Dayle Haddon (1948–2024)Canadian dancer, model, actress
People named Dayle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dayle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dayle is most concentrated in Massachusetts (3.5×), California (2.9×), Illinois (2.8×), New York (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1946
The most popular girls’ names the year Dayle peaked:
Dayle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Dayle | 75 | 181st |
| England and Wales boys | Dayle | 59 | 564th |
| Ireland boys | Dayle | 22 | 261st |
| England and Wales girls | Dayle | 7 | 3,126th |
| Scotland girls | Dayle | 4 | 546th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Dayle 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.