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Daleyza vs Dallis

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 1,796 Dallises. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dallis

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 98 years in which either name was published, Dallis for 84 years and Daleyza for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dallis
Total US births 12,3381,796
Most in one year 1,46969
Babies in 2025 56229
Estimated living today 12,0001,400
Median age today 719
Peak year 20141941
Best rank 227th girls1,588th boys
Rank in 2025 538th7,194th
First recorded 20121914
Girls / boys 12,338 / 0857 / 939

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 Dallises alive today are over 19; half the Daleyzas are over 7. That is 12 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: Daleyza and Dallis.