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Dalya

#8,484 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dalia

Dalya has been given to 556 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #8,484 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Dalya, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dalia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalya means

Dalya is a alternate transcription of Dalia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Dalya is a alternate transcription of Dalia. Dalia has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dalia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 556 girls were recorded with the name Dalya between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,867 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,461 in 2020 to #8,484 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,518 in 2015 to #8,484 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.

How common is Dalya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,484
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalya 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalyas were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
556
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Dalya 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
+1,217
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,977
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,966
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2005 (24)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,867
1997

Spellings of Dalya

Dalya is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 12.6% against Dalya's 0.04%.

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 Dalya is used

Across 1910–2025, Dalya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,200,003 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Dalya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dalya around the world

Where Dalya 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
    1998–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1979–2025
    #924
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dalya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,484
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,977
Best rank ever
#4,867
1997
Peak year
2005
24 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
556
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Dalya

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

DaleyDalalDallyDallieDalylaDalinaDalaniDalettDaltonDallisDaleahDaliahLilyaDalenaDalylahDalynDaleysaDalaneyDalayaDalethDalisDalexaMalyaDalisha

Sibling names for Dalya

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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