Daelan

#6,885 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Daelan has been given to 402 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #6,885 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Daelan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Daelan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Daelan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,885
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daelan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daelan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daelans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daelan was born before 2012 — so the typical Daelan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
402
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Daelan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,999
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,968
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2018 (28)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,804
2018

Spellings of Daelan

Daelan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 27.4% against Daelan's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Daelan around the world

Where Daelan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2009–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daelan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,885
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,999
Best rank ever
#3,804
2018
Peak year
2018
28 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
402
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Daelan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Daelan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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