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Daleyza vs Dalilah

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 5,135 Dalilahs. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dalilah

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

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Dalilah for 39 years and Daleyza for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dalilah
Total US births 12,3385,135
Most in one year 1,469263
Babies in 2025 562197
Estimated living today 12,0005,100
Median age today 712
Peak year 20142008
Best rank 227th girls1,005th girls
Rank in 2025 538th1,173rd
First recorded 20121970
Girls / boys 12,338 / 05,135 / 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 Dalilahs alive today are over 12; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 5 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Daleyza Dalilah
England and Wales 350

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: Daleyza and Dalilah.