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Dalia

#800 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Dalia has been given to 14,297 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #800 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 516 recorded.

Babies named Dalia, 2025

1 in 9,750

Dalia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalia: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalia means

Dalia has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Dalia

A separate documented entry treats Dalia as a form of Dahlia. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Dalia records a meaning of portion, share.

One of the source’s documented entries for Dalia records a meaning of hanging branch.

Origin, language, and formation

Dalia is used in Lithuanian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dahlia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Dalia is pronounced /ˈdalja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,291 girls were recorded with the name Dalia between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 516 in 1994; its best national rank was #485 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,074 in 2020 to #800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,035 in 2015 to #800 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Dalia between 1996 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1996; its best national rank was #8,144 in 1996.

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 Dalia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,750
340 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,730
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#800
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalia 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,760 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalia was born before 2000 — so the typical Dalia is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,697
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (2,877).

Is Dalia 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
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+274
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+235
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.9%
Peak was 1994 (516)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#485
1994

Spellings of Dalia

Dalia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 18.8% against Dalia's 0.47%.

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 Dalia is used

Across 2016–2025, Dalia was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 5,108 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

243 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 2,326
  2. 2California1 in 2,778
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,226
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 3,571
  5. 5New York1 in 3,704
  6. 6Michigan1 in 4,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 4,545
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 4,762

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.

Geographically, Dalia is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 77% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Dalia around the world

Where Dalia 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #560
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dalia

People whose public names include Dalia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dalia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dalia. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaliDeliaDahliaDaliahDalinaDalie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dalia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 274
Best rank ever
#485
1994
Peak year
1994
516 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,291
Count in 2025
340

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,144
1996
Peak year
1996
6 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dalia

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

DallasDaleLiliaLeliaDalilaDaleyzaEmeliaAliaMaliaTaliaThaliaKaliaAmaliaDeliaMeliaDalaryDahliaEliaOfeliaDalilahNoeliaCeliaAnaliaVelia

Names with a curve like Dalia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dalia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GiovannaLuisaNoemiReynaMicahMaraAlenaRebecaFrancescaNellyChanaPrincess

Sibling names for Dalia

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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