Dahlya

#12,195 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Dahlya has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #12,195 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Dahlya, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dahlya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dahlya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,195
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dahlya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dahlya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dahlyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dahlya was born before 2016 — so the typical Dahlya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
99
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Choose a decade

2010s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Dahlya 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
+3,612
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,740
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,733
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2010 (9)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,455
2020

Spellings of Dahlya

Dahlya is not the most common spelling — Darla is, with 38.5% against Dahlya's 0.09%.

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.

Dahlya around the world

Where Dahlya 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.

  • France
    2007–2025
    #5,598
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dahlya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,195
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,740
Best rank ever
#10,455
2020
Peak year
2010
9 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Dahlya

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Sibling names for Dahlya

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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