In 2025, 1,420 US girls were named Dahlia, making it the 215th most common girls’ name of the year, up 26 places from #241 in 2024. That is 116 more than the 1,304 girls named Dahlia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #215, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,420. For comparison, it was #412 in 2015 and #1,657 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dahlia in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 19,359 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,012 babies named Dahlia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,246 US girls were named Dahlia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,420. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dahlia ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #111 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dalia (14,297 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daliah, Dallie and Dalya are summarised on this page.