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Dalena

#10,274 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Magdalena

Dalena has been given to 1,109 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #10,274 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Dalena, 2025

1 in 368,000

Dalena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalena: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Magdalena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalena means

Dalena is a diminutive of Magdalena.

Origin, language, and formation

Dalena is used in Afrikaans.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Magdalena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,109 girls were recorded with the name Dalena between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,493 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,458 in 2020 to #10,274 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,717 in 2015 to #10,274 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dalena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,274
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalena 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalena was born before 1994 — so the typical Dalena is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,099
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Choose a decade

1990s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (310).

Is Dalena 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
−3,269
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,557
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.0%
Peak was 1993 (50)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,493
1993

Spellings of Dalena

Dalena is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 14.6% against Dalena's 0.08%.

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 Dalena is used

Across 1910–2025, Dalena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 363,046 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Dalena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dalena around the world

Where Dalena 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
    1992–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1990–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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.

Dalena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,274
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 184
Best rank ever
#2,493
1993
Peak year
1993
50 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,109
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Dalena

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

DaliahDallisDalettDalaniDalylaDallieDalinaDaliyahDaltonDalaryDaleahDaleenaJalenaDalaneyJolenaDaleysaDalylahLavenaMelenaMarenaDalyaDalayaDaleneDaley

Sibling names for Dalena

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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