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Dilanjan vs Dillen

American parents have registered 747 Dillens since 1880, against 13 Dilanjans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dilanjan against Dillen, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dilanjan Dillen

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 32 years in which either name was published, Dillen for 31 years and Dilanjan for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dilanjan Dillen
Total US births 13747
Most in one year 1359
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 12730
Median age today 4622
Peak year 19792003
Best rank 3,168th boys2,545th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19791991
Girls / boys 0 / 1356 / 691

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 Dilanjans alive today are over 46; half the Dillens are over 22. That is 24 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: Dilanjan and Dillen.