Girl Names That Start With D
Girls' names beginning with D, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 2.6%
- vs 3.7% in 2000
- Names in use
- 676
- 4,148 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1955
- at 12.5% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #14
- by 2025 share
How D has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with D, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 743#421 | Up 114 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 313#864 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 550#549 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 1,277#244 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 244#1,027 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 1971 | |||
| 3,206#75 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 458#635 | Down 288 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 151#1,429 | Down 368 rank positions in five years | 1983 | |||
| 533#563 | Up 353 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 1,009#302 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 4,137#51 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,283#242 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 130#1,605 | Down 526 rank positions in five years | 1938 | |||
| 1,740#178 | Up 237 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 275#941 | Up 473 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 1,035#296 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 135#1,561 | Down 217 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 657#468 | Down 55 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 168#1,327 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 1969 | |||
| 787#394 | Up 93 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 316#857 | Up 334 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 352#771 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,420#215 | Up 139 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 338#808 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 413#687 | Down 55 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 392#716 | Down 104 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 804#381 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 340#800 | Up 274 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 207#1,129 | Up 200 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 150#1,437 | Up 136 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 562#538 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 363#749 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 364#747 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 158#1,385 | Up 922 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 399#706 | Up 236 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 172#1,295 | Down 150 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 229#1,063 | Up 148 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 718#432 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 139#1,528 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 208#1,126 | Down 627 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 197#1,175 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 163#1,354 | Up 158 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 201#1,154 | Up 399 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 326#836 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 237#1,047 | Up 1,214 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 199#1,164 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 157#1,390 | Up 2,402 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 146#1,469 | Up 954 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 231#1,060 | Up 949 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 144#1,487 | Up 1,618 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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D names climbing fastest
Biggest D names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.