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Dalila

#1,528 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Delilah

Dalila has been given to 6,042 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #1,528 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Dalila, 2025

1 in 23,900

Dalila over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Delilah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalila means

Dalila is a form of Delilah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dalila → Delilah. The family’s meaning is “[she who] weakened”, recorded in English with the source elements d'līla.

Origin, language, and formation

Dalila is used in French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Delilah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Dalila is pronounced /da.li.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,042 girls were recorded with the name Dalila between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 207 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,209 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,680 in 2020 to #1,528 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,625 in 2015 to #1,528 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 Dalila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,900
139 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,528
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalila 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalila was born before 2005 — so the typical Dalila is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,027
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (1,525).

Is Dalila 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
−197
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+152
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+97
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.1%
Peak was 2009 (207)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,209
2009

Spellings of Dalila

Dalila is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 11.8% against Dalila's 0.58%.

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 Dalila is used

Across 2016–2025, Dalila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 12,766 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,143
  2. 2Texas1 in 8,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 9,091
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 11,111
  6. 6Georgia1 in 14,286
  7. 7Oregon1 in 14,286
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 20,000

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.

Dalila around the world

Where Dalila 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
    2007–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,110
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Dalila

People whose public names include Dalila, 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.

Dalila in other languages

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

Delila

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

Dalila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,528
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 152
Best rank ever
#1,209
2009
Peak year
2009
207 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,042
Count in 2025
139

Names similar to Dalila

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

DalaryDalilahDallasDaleyzaJamilaDaliaDalenaDelilaDaliahShailaDallisLucilaDalettDalaniKeilaMakailaDalylaDaliyahDallieKamilaDalinaBailaDaleneNaila

Names with a curve like Dalila

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

KerenMikaMeliaFarahXochitlAnnelieseLainaDevorahEleniRochelNellyYael

Sibling names for Dalila

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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