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Dacia vs Dack

American parents have registered 2,712 Dacias since 1880, against 50 Dacks. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dacia against Dack, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dacia Dack

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dacia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Dacia had 16 and Dack had 12.

Side by side

  Dacia Dack
Total US births 2,71250
Most in one year 10413
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,60040
Median age today 4055
Peak year 19771974
Best rank 1,183rd girls2,799th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211968
Girls / boys 2,712 / 00 / 50

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dacks alive today are over 55; half the Dacias are over 40. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dacia and Dack.