In 2025, 340 US girls were named Dalia, making it the 800th most common girls’ name of the year, up 58 places from #858 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 315 girls named Dalia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #485, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 516. For comparison, it was #1,035 in 2015 and #1,353 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dalia in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 14,297 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,877 babies named Dalia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,798 US girls were named Dalia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 340. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dalia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #415 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Delia (37,380 babies since 1880), Dahlia (19,359 babies since 1880) and Daliyah (1,269 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daley, Dalina and Daleah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.