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Daelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,073 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,073 in 2011; #3,112 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Daelyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,112 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,073.
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Daelyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,073 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 93 (2011).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Daelyn, making it the 3,112th most common girls’ name of the year, down 647 places from #2,465 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 73 girls named Daelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,073, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #2,720 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Daelyn, making it the 2,651st most common boys’ name of the year, up 409 places from #3,060 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 40 boys named Daelyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,651, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 49. For comparison, it was #2,928 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daelyn in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 2,499 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 974 babies named Daelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 636 US girls were named Daelyn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dallin (5,197 babies since 1880), Daylen (4,330 babies since 1880), Daylin (3,824 babies since 1880) and Daylon (3,294 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daelynn and Dailynn are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Daelynn (1,000), Dailynn (456).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Daelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,112 | 49 | #2,651 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,465 | 40 | #3,060 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,201 | 37 | #3,240 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,904 | 37 | #3,227 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,789 | 36 | #3,255 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,397 | 36 | #3,148 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,487 | 34 | #3,365 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,259 | 43 | #2,808 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,161 | 35 | #3,259 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,772 | 37 | #3,119 |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,720 | 40 | #2,928 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,239 | 35 | #3,166 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,051 | 31 | #3,423 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,107 | 36 | #3,125 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,073 | 37 | #3,061 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,946 | 39 | #2,970 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,536 | 30 | #3,569 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,810 | 23 | #4,292 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,794 | 33 | #3,320 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,575 | 27 | #3,698 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,377 | 25 | #3,736 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,644 | 16 | #5,056 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,308 | 19 | #4,307 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,748 | 26 | #3,369 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,642 | 7 | #8,486 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,224 | 16 | #4,623 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,454 | 5 | #10,216 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,669 | 7 | #7,724 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,545 | 13 | #4,716 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,910 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,789 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,131 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,326 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).