Dal
#10,942 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dal has been given to 628 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #10,942 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Dal, 2025
1 in 553,000
Dal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,942
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dal 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dal was born before 1956 — so the typical Dal is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 19.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 382
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (122).
Is Dal 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
- +282
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,159
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,174
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.86×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.0%
- Peak was 1957 (20)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Where Dal is used
Across 1910–2025, Dal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Dal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dal around the world
Where Dal 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.
- South Australia1972–1972#479in 1972
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.