Dalen
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,971since 1941
Dalen over time
Rank among boys' names. Dalen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,443 | 17 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,995 | 27 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,651 | 30 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,426 | 22 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,794 | 28 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,594 | 21 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,358 | 33 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,513 | 31 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,538 | 21 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,434 | 31 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,898 | 75 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,252 | 58 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,515 | 50 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,071 | 66 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,893 | 71 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,790 | 73 |
| 2004 | — | #1,880 | 65 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,391 | 96 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,636 | 73 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,316 | 99 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,497 | 81 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,503 | 75 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,527 | 71 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,706 | 57 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #2,026 | 41 |
| 1994 | — | #2,307 | 34 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,455 | 30 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,325 | 17 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,860 | 19 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,535 | 11 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dalen! It came in at #3,505, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1948, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dalen is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#648 · 1 in 7,461
- North Carolina#712 · 1 in 7,835
Best ever in a state: #270 in Hawaii, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #648 | 5 | 1 in 7,461 |
| North Carolina | #712 | 6 | 1 in 7,835 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dalen
- 418 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,861)
- 1,435 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #5,861)
- 2,348 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 2001 at #1,316 (99 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,625 boys born in 2001 were named Dalen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.1% of all boys named Dalen (732) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,402 |
| 1950s | 51 | #2,818 (1958) | #3,428 |
| 1960s | 82 | #2,535 (1960) | #3,105 |
| 1970s | 90 | #2,375 (1978) | #3,513 |
| 1980s | 129 | #2,725 (1987) | #3,872 |
| 1990s | 416 | #1,503 (1999) | #2,284 |
| 2000s | 732 | #1,316 (2001) | #1,824 |
| 2010s | 321 | #1,898 (2010) | #3,716 |
| 2020s | 139 | #3,651 (2021) | #4,543 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dalen in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 33,073 of them was named Dalen, which outranked 84.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,693Roel58
- #1,693Tavis58
- #1,693Tyre58
- #1,706Dalen57
- #1,706Aman57
- #1,706Brando57
- #1,706Deontay57
- #1,730Amin56
- #1,730Bayley56
- #1,730Chasen56
Tied with 23 names at #1,706; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.