Daylon

Last seen for girls in 1999 at #14,411 · #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
2002 · 154 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,284
since 1943

Daylon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Daylon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201943peak #1,008, 2002boys
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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—#2,36358
2024—#2,23664
2023—#2,24463
2022—#2,02275
2021—#2,17365
2020—#1,99671
2019—#2,31059
2018—#2,30058
2017—#2,45052
2016—#2,33556
2015—#2,41253
2014—#2,06368
2013—#2,06565
2012—#1,60297
2011—#1,79580
2010—#1,66593
2009—#1,472113
2008—#1,532105
2007—#1,562100
2006—#1,402113
2005—#1,48597
2004—#1,172133
2003—#1,082143
2002—#1,008154
2001—#1,231108
2000—#1,142121
1999#14,4115#1,100121
1998#14,1225#1,224100
1997—#1,169103
1996—#1,149103
1995—#1,26885
1994—#1,53161
1993—#2,20935
1992—#1,73149
1991—#2,14334
1990—#2,55326
1989—#2,78422
1988—#2,59922
1987—#2,55921
1986—#3,13115
1985—#2,50420
1984—#3,70111
1983—#4,1419
1982—#3,28213
1981—#2,89815
1980—#6,2505
1979—#3,16813
1978—#3,07013
1977—#5,1236
1976—#3,09512
1975—#3,9418
1974—#3,31810
1973—#3,4459
1972—#3,9637
1971—#4,3756
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1967—#3,5596
1966—#3,9485
1965—#3,5376
1964—#4,0395
1963—#3,3187
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1960—#3,6656
1959—#3,9885
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First appearance
1943

The first year at least five boys were named Daylon! It came in at #3,538, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1943–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Daylon is popular in 1943

No state had 5 or more boys named Daylon in 1943, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Daylon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 127 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,363)
  • 367 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #2,363)
  • 49 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #2,363)
Rise & fade · boys
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1943
  • Peaked 2002 at #1,008 (154 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,607
  • Highest: 1 in 12,607 boys born in 2002 were named Daylon (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 36.1% of all boys named Daylon (1,187) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,538 (1943)#3,538
1950s19#3,095 (1952)#3,420
1960s42#3,318 (1963)#3,666
1970s84#3,070 (1978)#3,722
1980s153#2,504 (1985)#3,385
1990s717#1,100 (1999)#1,608
2000s1,187#1,008 (2002)#1,309
2010s681#1,602 (2012)#2,100
2020s396#1,996 (2020)#2,172

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.

Daylon in 1943

boys
#3,538
5 births · 1 in 285,459 boys

Top boys' names in 1943

  1. #1James80,278
  2. #2Robert74,892
  3. #3John68,929
  4. #4William55,904
  5. #5Richard46,339
  6. #6David37,240
  7. #7Charles36,632
  8. #8Thomas32,874
  9. #9Ronald29,239
  10. #10Michael24,745
  11. #3,538Daylon5
More about 1943

boys

1,427,297 boys got a published name in 1943; 1 in 285,459 of them was named Daylon, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,040 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daylon
  1. #3,231Wren6
  2. #3,231Zannie6
  3. #3,231Zell6
  4. #3,538Daylon5
  5. #3,538Abbott5
  6. #3,538Abelino5
  7. #3,538Abundio5

Tied with 502 names at #3,538; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1942
Risers
  1. ↑ 514Derek#1,228 → #714
  2. ↑ 465Armond#1,421 → #956
  3. ↑ 368Les#1,214 → #846
  4. ↑ 347Aron#1,244 → #897
  5. ↑ 321Edsel#1,167 → #846
Fallers
  1. ↓ 500Humberto#780 → #1,280
  2. ↓ 352Chauncey#928 → #1,280
  3. ↓ 352Clearence#991 → #1,343
  4. ↓ 344Macarthur#512 → #856
  5. ↓ 325Reyes#933 → #1,258

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

See the top 100 for 1943 →