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Dalibor

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dalibor has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Dalibor, 1979

1 in 665,000

Dalibor over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalibor: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalibor means

Dalibor is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dalibor is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Dalibor is pronounced [ˈdalɪbor].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Dalibor between 1979 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1979; its best national rank was #6,230 in 1979.

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 Dalibor?

Dalibor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalibor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalibor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalibors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalibor was born before 1979 — so the typical Dalibor is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Dalibor 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (5)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,230
1979

Dalibor around the world

Where Dalibor 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
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1972–2003
    #3,496
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1973–1984
    #455
    in 1984

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

Dalibor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,230
1979
Peak year
1979
5 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dalibor

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

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Sibling names for Dalibor

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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