Daylen

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #1,529 for boys in 2025, 113 births
Given to boys 92.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2010 · 201 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,986
since 1979

Daylen over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #5,108, 2010peak #980, 2010girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011#1,529113
2024#12,1617#1,344142
2023#8,48612#1,346140
2022#9,05611#1,156178
2021#15,2515#1,419129
2020#9,54610#1,297139
2019#7,02516#1,209158
2018#15,6825#1,294141
2017#8,29913#1,314137
2016#10,11310#1,242150
2015—#1,283139
2014#13,0697#1,213151
2013#9,61211#1,370123
2012#6,34120#1,074174
2011#8,19614#1,046181
2010#5,10827#980201
2009#6,54420#1,055179
2008#8,96513#1,070175
2007#8,52014#1,400117
2006#9,28612#1,149147
2005#8,88312#1,362110
2004#6,48918#1,45695
2003#6,88516#1,233117
2002#8,83711#1,236110
2001#11,0208#1,54378
2000#9,16310#1,39190
1999#11,3857#1,60467
1998#10,1228#1,89951
1997#9,8028#1,90848
1996#9,5818#2,29935
1995—#2,25335
1994—#3,32620
1993—#3,36819
1992—#2,74725
1991—#4,76011
1990—#7,1786
1989—#5,1659
1988—#3,91512
1987—#6,0896
1986—#6,7215
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1984—#6,3155
1983—#6,2385
1982—#5,0037
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1979—#5,3556
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five boys were named Daylen! It came in at #5,355, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Daylen is popular in 1979

No state had 5 or more boys named Daylen in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Daylen
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 185 spots since 2024 (#1,344 → #1,529)
  • 232 spots since 2020 (#1,297 → #1,529)
  • 246 spots since 2015 (#1,283 → #1,529)
  • Biggest jump: 75 spots in 2010 (#1,055 → #980)
  • Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2011 (#980 → #1,046)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2010 at #980 (201 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2010
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,546
  • Highest: 1 in 9,546 boys born in 2010 were named Daylen (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 15,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 39.0% of all boys named Daylen (1,555) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#5,355 (1979)#5,355
1980s49#3,915 (1988)#5,635
1990s317#1,604 (1999)#3,134
2000s1,218#1,055 (2009)#1,290
2010s1,555#980 (2010)#1,203
2020s841#1,156 (2022)#1,349

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.

Daylen in 1979

boys
#5,355
6 births · 1 in 286,923 boys

Top boys' names in 1979

  1. #1Michael67,713
  2. #2Christopher50,659
  3. #3Jason50,369
  4. #4David42,053
  5. #5James39,351
  6. #6Matthew35,621
  7. #7John35,410
  8. #8Robert34,015
  9. #9Joshua31,120
  10. #10Brian28,659
  11. #5,355Daylen6
More about 1979

boys

1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 286,923 of them was named Daylen, which outranked 24.3% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daylen
  1. #4,842Zebulah7
  2. #4,842Zeus7
  3. #4,842Zoltan7
  4. #5,355Daylen6
  5. #5,355Aasim6
  6. #5,355Abdallah6
  7. #5,355Abdula6
  8. #6,056Aakash5
  9. #6,056Aarn5
  10. #6,056Aaryn5

Tied with 700 names at #5,355; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,228Tyrel#2,134 → #906
  2. ↑ 471Jace#1,186 → #715
  3. ↑ 387Chaz#1,371 → #984
  4. ↑ 311Tyrell#1,051 → #740
  5. ↑ 308Frederic#1,203 → #895
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,230Dequan#927 → #2,157
  2. ↓ 641Rahsaan#869 → #1,510
  3. ↓ 446Chip#989 → #1,435
  4. ↓ 308Rashaun#996 → #1,304
  5. ↓ 307Kenya#749 → #1,056

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979 →