Meaning not yet researched.
Dalila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 139 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,209 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,209 in 2009; #1,528 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dalila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,528 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,209.
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Dalila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 139 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,209 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 207 (2009).
In 2025, 139 US girls were named Dalila, making it the 1,528th most common girls’ name of the year, down 197 places from #1,331 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 172 girls named Dalila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,209, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 207. For comparison, it was #1,625 in 2015 and #3,730 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dalila in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 7 babies. In all, 6,042 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,525 babies named Dalila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,306 US girls were named Dalila; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 172. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,563 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dalila ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #732 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Delila (3,574 babies since 1880) and Dalilah (5,135 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dalyla, Dalylah and Dahlila are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dalyla (618), Dalylah (611), Dahlila (300), Dalayla (257), Dahlyla (42), Daliylah (40), Dalaila (36), Dahlilah (33), Daliyla (10), Daleyla (10), Daleila (5), Dalialah (5), and more.
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 Dalila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #732 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #871 | — |
| California | 25 | #1,057 | #969 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,216 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,246 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,282 | #934 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,370 | #1,487 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,441 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,461 | #1,520 |
| New York | 5 | #2,165 | #1,649 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2024 | 172 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2015 | 132 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2010 | 157 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 2009 | 207 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2008 | 206 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2006 | 180 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,730 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,765 | — | — |
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).