Daelyn
#3,112 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daelyn has been given to 2,499 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #3,112 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 93 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.
Babies named Daelyn, 2025
1 in 63,800
Daelyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Daelyn over time
In 2025, Daelyn went to 51% girls and 49% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Daelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 63,800
- 52 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 30,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,112
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 44,191 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daelyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daelyn was born before 2012 — so the typical Daelyn is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,650
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (607).
Is Daelyn 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
- −647
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −715
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −392
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.9%
- Peak was 2011 (93)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Daelyn
Daelyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 48.5% against Daelyn's 0.13%.
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.
Where Daelyn is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Daelyn was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 163,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Daelyn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Daelyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 744,224 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daelyn around the world
Where Daelyn 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.
- Canada1999–2013#3,199in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Daelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Daelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.