Meaning not yet researched.
Dalyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,305 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,305 in 2002; #6,538 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dalyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,538 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #2,305.
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Dalyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,305 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 45 (2004).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Dalyn, making it the 6,538th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,931 places from #8,469 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 9 boys named Dalyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,305, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 45, in 2004. For comparison, it was #4,580 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dalyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,330, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 17, in 2000. For comparison, it was #17,079 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dalyn in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 6 babies. In all, 1,306 US babies have been given the name, 30% of them girls and 70% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 495 babies named Dalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 165 US boys were named Dalyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys 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).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Dalyn 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 | — | — | 13 | #6,538 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,469 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #6,987 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,910 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,603 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,842 | 22 | #4,452 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,835 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,260 | 19 | #4,967 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,456 | 24 | #4,249 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,239 | 18 | #5,177 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,079 | 21 | #4,580 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,918 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,654 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,834 | 20 | #4,728 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,276 | 22 | #4,395 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,809 | 26 | #3,915 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,880 | 31 | #3,491 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,878 | 36 | #3,172 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,962 | 32 | #3,392 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,430 | 43 | #2,706 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,449 | 39 | #2,762 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,085 | 45 | #2,462 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,351 | 37 | #2,684 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,993 | 45 | #2,305 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,410 | 40 | #2,440 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,273 | 41 | #2,343 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,837 | 33 | #2,621 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,129 | 32 | #2,608 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,944 | 16 | #4,096 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,246 | 24 | #3,045 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,795 | 19 | #3,453 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,271 | 27 | #2,703 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,888 | 13 | #4,500 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,749 | 21 | #3,130 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,517 | 9 | #5,595 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,646 | 7 | #6,552 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,253 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,498 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,167 | 6 | #6,265 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,708 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,079 | 6 | #5,941 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,358 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,627 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,417 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,544 | 8 | #4,600 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,043 | 5 | #5,989 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,682 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,374 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,205 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,615 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,533 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,591 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,926 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,167 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,790 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,330 | — | — |
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).