Dayle

Where Dayle comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dayle.

  • Vowel-ended
Dayle through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Peak, #828
    100 babies named Dayle, the most in any year.
  3. 1948
    Dayle Haddon born
    Canadian dancer, model, actress
  4. 1948
    Dayle Hadlee born
    New Zealand cricketer
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,570.
  6. 1965
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Dayle Haddon · Canadian dancer, model, actress, 1948–2024
  • Dayle Hadlee · New Zealand cricketer, born 1948
  • Dayle Southwell · association football player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.