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Daimon vs Daisy

American parents have registered 159,355 Daisys since 1880, against 802 Daimons. Daisy is still ahead, with 3,206 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daimon against Daisy, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daimon Daisy

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

Daisy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Daimon had 18 and Daisy had 282.

Side by side

  Daimon Daisy
Total US births 802159,355
Most in one year 333,206
Babies in 2025 183,206
Estimated living today 780101,000
Median age today 2423
Peak year 20032025
Best rank 2,922nd boys75th girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th75th
First recorded 19681880
Girls / boys 0 / 802158,723 / 632

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Daimon Daisy
England and Wales 450,856
France 104,875

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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