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Daelyn vs Daelynn

American parents have registered 2,499 Daelyns since 1880, against 1,000 Daelynns. Daelyn is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daelyn against Daelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daelyn Daelynn

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

Daelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Daelyn had 56 and Daelynn had 36.

Side by side

  Daelyn Daelynn
Total US births 2,4991,000
Most in one year 13053
Babies in 2025 10116
Estimated living today 2,500990
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20112007
Best rank 2,073rd girls3,376th girls
Rank in 2025 3,100th6,838th
First recorded 19861996
Girls / boys 1,650 / 849936 / 64

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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