Highest ever

Dahlia

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#215
1,420 girls
2015
#412
rank
1950
#1,657
rank

Dahlia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,420 in 2025. Its best rank was #215 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Dahlia in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#215 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,420
Since 1880
19,359
Years on record
122

Babies named Dahlia, every year since 1880

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Girls

Dahlia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,420 girls in 2025. Peak: #215 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,420 (2025).

About the name Dahlia

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Daliah (962), Dallie (598), Dalya (556), Daliya (160), Dayli (104), Dahlya (99), Dalea (39), Dalli (38), Daylia (35), Dahliah (32), Daylie (17), Daleia (16).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Dahlia in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Dahlia by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Nevada20#111#216
Oregon29#116#434
Hawaii7#117—
Rhode Island7#127—
California237#128#201
Arizona43#146#330
Idaho14#147—
District of Columbia5#156#262
Washington44#165#306
Illinois55#180#357
Delaware5#182—
Colorado32#187#259
Texas174#189#512
Iowa16#204#540
Kansas16#204#546
North Dakota5#205—
New Hampshire6#213—
Minnesota26#213#519
Wisconsin25#223#374
Maine5#225—
Massachusetts25#226#361
Oklahoma17#227—
Connecticut15#227—
Nebraska10#230—
New York74#232#347
Michigan38#236#535
North Carolina45#239#837
Missouri25#250#994
Florida72#263#425
Utah16#278#462
New Jersey30#279#511
Georgia36#283#832
Arkansas10#308—
Mississippi9#311#439
Kentucky14#312—
South Carolina16#314#591
Tennessee25#318#763
Pennsylvania34#321#362
Indiana22#322#788
New Mexico5#323#340
Maryland16#335#655
Alabama14#350#720
Ohio31#360#495
Louisiana11#402#543
Virginia20#403#597

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,420#215——
20241,304#241——
20231,228#253——
20221,133#279——
20211,038#310——
2020873#354——
2019848#372——
2018752#412——
2017797#392——
2016853#387——
2015778#412——
2014721#445——
2013695#440——
2012579#523——
2011538#540——
2010451#650——
2009445#661——
2008397#748——
2007356#803——
2006263#988——
2005192#1,193——
2004170#1,266——
2003177#1,204——
2002160#1,243——
2001131#1,439——
2000137#1,363——
1999128#1,381——
1998144#1,260——
1997124#1,378——
1996105#1,521——
199570#1,957——
199483#1,757——
199344#2,732——
199254#2,398——
199146#2,630——
199041#2,814——
198948#2,421——
198840#2,657——
198729#3,188——
198636#2,691——
198544#2,291——
198436#2,583——
198336#2,524——
198233#2,781——
198139#2,454——
198049#2,102——
197955#1,902——
197839#2,316——
197759#1,741——
197649#1,870——
197541#2,103——
197435#2,260——
197342#1,948——
197234#2,234——
197142#2,008——
197046#1,880——
196938#2,032——
196829#2,256——
196728#2,283——
196636#1,925——
196524#2,481——
196428#2,315——
196328#2,263——
196235#1,953——
196124#2,484——
196037#1,859——
195926#2,242——
195827#2,171——
195720#2,577——
195623#2,333——
195518#2,648——
195442#1,564——
195331#1,791——
195226#1,986——
195121#2,191——
195032#1,657——
194921#2,153——
194828#1,786——
194719#2,294——
194619#2,173——
194510#2,952——
19446#4,159——
194310#3,081——
194214#2,445——
194117#2,033——
19407#3,572——
193913#2,323——
193820#1,765——
19375#4,384——
193611#2,554——
19358#3,214——
19349#2,967——
19339#2,922——
193216#2,052——
193115#2,127——
193018#1,954——
192916#2,117——
192823#1,743——
192721#1,897——
192623#1,787——
192525#1,703——
192423#1,820——
192323#1,791——
192226#1,653——
192126#1,682——
192022#1,830——
191921#1,812——
191816#2,223——
191719#1,860——
191617#1,965——
191515#2,068——
191417#1,613——
191314#1,614——
191210#1,874——
19117#2,011——
19105#2,496——
19075#2,139——
19066#1,782——
19055#2,004——
18996#1,444——
18968#1,229——
18905#1,377——

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).