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Daleisa vs Daleyza

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 79 Daleisas. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daleisa against Daleyza, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daleisa Daleyza

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

Daleyza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2012 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Daleisa had 18 and Daleyza had 485.

Side by side

  Daleisa Daleyza
Total US births 7912,338
Most in one year 241,469
Babies in 2025 under 5562
Estimated living today 8012,000
Median age today 117
Peak year 20142014
Best rank 5,456th girls227th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked538th
First recorded 20132012
Girls / boys 79 / 012,338 / 0

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 Daleisas alive today are over 11; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 4 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: Daleisa and Daleyza.