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Dalia vs Dallin

American parents have registered 14,297 Dalias since 1880, against 5,197 Dallins. Dalia is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dalia against Dallin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dalia Dallin

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 110 years in which either name was published, Dalia for 109 years and Dallin for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dalia Dallin
Total US births 14,2975,197
Most in one year 516237
Babies in 2025 34035
Estimated living today 13,0005,100
Median age today 2423
Peak year 19942002
Best rank 485th girls737th boys
Rank in 2025 799th3,314th
First recorded 19131971
Girls / boys 14,291 / 60 / 5,197

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.

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: Dalia and Dallin.