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Dayle

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dayle has been given to 3,320 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1946, with 100 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.

Babies named Dayle, 2024

1 in 557,000

Dayle over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Dayle over time

In 2024, Dayle went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19122024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Dayle: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dayle means

Dayle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dayle is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,181 girls were recorded with the name Dayle between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1946; its best national rank was #828 in 1946.

In the United States, 1,139 boys were recorded with the name Dayle between 1913 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,284 in 1938.

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 Dayle?

Dayle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dayle 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dayles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayle was born before 1955 — so the typical Dayle is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,546
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (674).

Is Dayle 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (100)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#828
1946

Spellings of Dayle

Dayle is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 23.6% against Dayle's 0.15%.

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 Dayle is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Dayle was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 180,846 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Dayle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Dayle is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Dayle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,301,320 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Nebraska1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dayle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dayle around the world

Where Dayle 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
    1996–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997
  • Scotland
    1990–1990
    #546
    in 1990
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #1,681
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1952–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dayle

People whose public names include Dayle, 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.

Dayle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#828
1946
Peak year
1946
100 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,181
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,284
1938
Peak year
1958
32 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
1,139
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dayle

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

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Names with a curve like Dayle

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

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Sibling names for Dayle

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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