Meaning not yet researched.
Daylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #981 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #981 in 2010; #1,530 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Daylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,530 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #981.
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Daylen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 boys in 2025. Peak: #981 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 201 (2010).
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Daylen, making it the 1,530th most common boys’ name of the year, down 186 places from #1,344 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 142 boys named Daylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #981, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #1,283 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daylen in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 4,330 US babies have been given the name, 7.9% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,678 babies named Daylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,427 US boys were named Daylen; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Daylen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #379 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dallin (5,197 babies since 1880), Daylin (3,824 babies since 1880), Daylon (3,294 babies since 1880) and Daylan (2,913 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dalene, Daylene and Dayleen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Dalene (1,575), Daylene (532), Dayleen (449), Daylynn (423), Daileen (79), Dailene (24), Dayleon (15).
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 Daylen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 8 | #379 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #792 | #730 |
| Georgia | 11 | #804 | #675 |
| Illinois | 10 | #820 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #950 | #947 |
| Indiana | 5 | #975 | #930 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,178 | #921 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,577 | #1,473 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,897 | #728 |
| California | 5 | #2,552 | #1,560 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,007 | 113 | #1,530 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,485 | 142 | #1,344 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,610 | 140 | #1,349 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,200 | 178 | #1,159 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,832 | 129 | #1,420 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,735 | 139 | #1,297 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,112 | 158 | #1,211 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,286 | 141 | #1,295 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,402 | 137 | #1,315 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,275 | 150 | #1,242 |
| 2015 | — | — | 139 | #1,283 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,430 | 151 | #1,213 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,763 | 123 | #1,371 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,401 | 174 | #1,076 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,303 | 181 | #1,046 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,142 | 201 | #981 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,629 | 179 | #1,056 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,094 | 175 | #1,071 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,648 | 117 | #1,400 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,444 | 147 | #1,149 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,041 | 110 | #1,363 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,556 | 95 | #1,458 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,962 | 117 | #1,234 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,006 | 110 | #1,237 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,272 | 78 | #1,547 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,331 | 90 | #1,392 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,678 | 67 | #1,610 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,348 | 51 | #1,904 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,025 | 48 | #1,911 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,799 | 35 | #2,309 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,259 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,353 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,395 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,755 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,832 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,385 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,266 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,965 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,285 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,970 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,529 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,458 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,139 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,506 |
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).