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Dilara vs Dillon

American parents have registered 66,270 Dillons since 1880, against 521 Dilaras. Dillon is still ahead, with 294 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dilara against Dillon, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dilara Dillon

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

Dillon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1892 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Dilara had 35 and Dillon had 329.

Side by side

  Dilara Dillon
Total US births 52166,270
Most in one year 355,082
Babies in 2025 31294
Estimated living today 52064,000
Median age today 1227
Peak year 20241992
Best rank 4,114th girls73rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,460th929th
First recorded 19891892
Girls / boys 521 / 01,045 / 65,225

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 Dillons alive today are over 27; half the Dilaras are over 12. That is 15 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 Dilara Dillon
England and Wales 5334,201
France 1,32510
Scotland 6580

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: Dilara and Dillon.