Daylan
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558 · #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 119 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,829since 1971
Daylan over time
Rank among boys' names. Daylan 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,572 | 51 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,313 | 61 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,032 | 74 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,981 | 77 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,652 | 48 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,264 | 60 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,974 | 74 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,029 | 71 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,820 | 82 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,788 | 85 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,780 | 85 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,903 | 74 |
| 2012 | — | #1,832 | 80 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,719 | 86 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #1,713 | 89 |
| 2009 | — | #1,762 | 86 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,361 | 125 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,721 | 87 | |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,330 | 123 |
| 2005 | — | #1,411 | 104 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,425 | 99 |
| 2003 | — | #1,224 | 119 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,268 | 107 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #1,368 | 93 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #1,420 | 87 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,671 | 63 |
| 1998 | — | #1,666 | 62 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,499 | 70 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,671 | 57 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,736 | 51 |
| 1994 | — | #1,643 | 55 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,123 | 37 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | — | #2,227 | 32 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,523 | 14 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,510 | 21 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,925 | 10 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Daylan! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Daylan is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#547 · 1 in 2,981
- Tennessee#854 · 1 in 7,264
- Texas#1,124 · 1 in 12,431
- Georgia#1,252 · 1 in 11,804
- New York#1,809 · 1 in 21,542
Best ever in a state: #361 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,981 |
| Tennessee | #854 | 5 | 1 in 7,264 |
| Texas | #1,124 | 15 | 1 in 12,431 |
| Georgia | #1,252 | 5 | 1 in 11,804 |
| New York | #1,809 | 5 | 1 in 21,542 |
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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 Daylan
- 259 spots since 2024 (#2,313 → #2,572)
- 308 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #2,572)
- 792 spots since 2015 (#1,780 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2003 at #1,224 (119 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,321 boys born in 2008 were named Daylan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,224 in 2003, was only 1 in 16,600 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.4% of all boys named Daylan (1,030) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 25 | #3,658 (1971) | #4,893 |
| 1980s | 106 | #2,510 (1986) | #4,209 |
| 1990s | 484 | #1,499 (1997) | #2,025 |
| 2000s | 1,030 | #1,224 (2003) | #1,429 |
| 2010s | 813 | #1,713 (2010) | #1,829 |
| 2020s | 371 | #1,981 (2022) | #2,302 |
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.
Daylan in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 23,065 of them was named Daylan, which outranked 87.9% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,755Dejuan87
- #1,755Kingsley87
- #1,755Shreyas87
- #1,762Daylan86
- #1,762Daren86
- #1,762Deagan86
- #1,762Harlem86
- #1,774Axton85
- #1,774Benedict85
- #1,774Brayton85
Tied with 11 names at #1,762; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.