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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Dailyn

Dailyn was the 2700th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 64 babies. Its best year was 2020, when it ranked 1140th with 208 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 968 places. More babies were named Dailyn in the 2010s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#2,700 girls, down 1,560 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
64girls
Girls and boys
84% girls, 16% boys2021–2025
Peak year
2020208 babies
Total since 1880
2,288babies recorded

Dailyn popularity since 1880

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GirlsBoys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Rank (boys)Babies (girls)Babies (boys)
2025#2,700#5,4336417
2020#1,140#4,30220823
2010#3,372#4,7114820
2000#5,028#8,370237
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How popular is Dailyn, counting every spelling?

Dailyn is a spelling of Daylin, a name family that ranked #952 for girls in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #2,700 for Dailyn on its own. Together these spellings went to 254 girls in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Daylin81#2,261564
Dailyn64#2,700469
Daelyn52#3,112330
Daelynn16#6,904127
Dayleen7#12,215103
Dailynn20#5,963100
Daylynn5#15,48547
Deilyn9#10,29427

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Dailyn?

64 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Dailyn (0.02 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Dailyn born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 131 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Dailyn.

Chance of another Dailyn in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025
Most likely inGeorgiaunder 1 in 50 (2024)

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Dailyn?

About 1,900 people born in the US named Dailyn are alive today, with a median age of 8; half are between 5 and 17. That makes Dailyn a young name: most people with it are children.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Dailyn by state

How common Dailyn was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Georgia (2.0×), Texas (1.7×), California (1.7×). In 40 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.

Alaska: fewer than 5 a yearAK–Maine: fewer than 5 a yearME–Wisconsin: fewer than 5 a yearWI–Vermont: fewer than 5 a yearVT–New Hampshire: fewer than 5 a yearNH–Washington: 0.04 per 1,000 babiesWA0.04Idaho: fewer than 5 a yearID–Montana: fewer than 5 a yearMT–North Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearND–Minnesota: fewer than 5 a yearMN–Illinois: 0.03 per 1,000 babiesIL0.03Michigan: fewer than 5 a yearMI–New York: 0.04 per 1,000 babiesNY0.04Massachusetts: fewer than 5 a yearMA–Oregon: fewer than 5 a yearOR–Nevada: fewer than 5 a yearNV–Wyoming: fewer than 5 a yearWY–South Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearSD–Iowa: fewer than 5 a yearIA–Indiana: fewer than 5 a yearIN–Ohio: fewer than 5 a yearOH–Pennsylvania: fewer than 5 a yearPA–New Jersey: fewer than 5 a yearNJ–Connecticut: fewer than 5 a yearCT–Rhode Island: fewer than 5 a yearRI–California: 0.10 per 1,000 babiesCA0.10Utah: fewer than 5 a yearUT–Colorado: fewer than 5 a yearCO–Nebraska: fewer than 5 a yearNE–Missouri: fewer than 5 a yearMO–Kentucky: fewer than 5 a yearKY–West Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearWV–Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearVA–Maryland: 0.09 per 1,000 babiesMD0.09Delaware: fewer than 5 a yearDE–Arizona: 0.04 per 1,000 babiesAZ0.04New Mexico: fewer than 5 a yearNM–Kansas: fewer than 5 a yearKS–Arkansas: fewer than 5 a yearAR–Tennessee: fewer than 5 a yearTN–North Carolina: 0.02 per 1,000 babiesNC0.02South Carolina: fewer than 5 a yearSC–District of Columbia: fewer than 5 a yearDC–Oklahoma: 0.07 per 1,000 babiesOK0.07Louisiana: fewer than 5 a yearLA–Mississippi: fewer than 5 a yearMS–Alabama: fewer than 5 a yearAL–Georgia: 0.11 per 1,000 babiesGA0.11Hawaii: fewer than 5 a yearHI–Texas: 0.10 per 1,000 babiesTX0.10Florida: 0.03 per 1,000 babiesFL0.03
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex, Dailyn, girls, 2021–2025. Darker means more common.

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Questions about the name Dailyn

How popular is the name Dailyn?

Dailyn was the 2700th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 64 babies. Its best year was 2020, when it ranked 1140th with 208 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 968 places. More babies were named Dailyn in the 2010s than in any other decade.

Is Dailyn a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, 84% girls, 16% boys given the name Dailyn in the US.

Where is Dailyn most popular?

In 2021–2025, Dailyn was most common in Georgia (0.11 per 1,000 girls), followed by Texas and California.