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Dalett vs Daleyza

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 682 Daletts. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dalett 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 2021, when Dalett had 181 and Daleyza had 766.

Side by side

  Dalett Daleyza
Total US births 68212,338
Most in one year 1811,469
Babies in 2025 42562
Estimated living today 68012,000
Median age today 37
Peak year 20212014
Best rank 1,277th girls227th girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th538th
First recorded 20202012
Girls / boys 682 / 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 Daleyzas alive today are over 7; half the Daletts are over 3. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Dalett and Daleyza.