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Daleyza vs Dalzary

American parents have registered 12,338 Daleyzas since 1880, against 68 Dalzarys. Daleyza is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daleyza Dalzary

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 2024, when Daleyza had 684 and Dalzary had 44.

Side by side

  Daleyza Dalzary
Total US births 12,33868
Most in one year 1,46944
Babies in 2025 56224
Estimated living today 12,00070
Median age today 71
Peak year 20142024
Best rank 227th girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 538th5,238th
First recorded 20122024
Girls / boys 12,338 / 068 / 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 Dalzarys are over 1. That is 6 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 Dalzary.