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
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 154 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,284since 1943
Daylon over time
Rank among boys' names. Daylon 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 | — | #2,363 | 58 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,236 | 64 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,244 | 63 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,022 | 75 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,173 | 65 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,996 | 71 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,310 | 59 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,300 | 58 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,450 | 52 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,335 | 56 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,412 | 53 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,063 | 68 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,065 | 65 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,602 | 97 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,795 | 80 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,665 | 93 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,472 | 113 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,532 | 105 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,562 | 100 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,402 | 113 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,485 | 97 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,172 | 133 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,082 | 143 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,008 | 154 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,231 | 108 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,142 | 121 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,100 | 121 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,224 | 100 |
| 1997 | — | #1,169 | 103 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,149 | 103 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,268 | 85 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,531 | 61 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,731 | 49 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,143 | 34 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,553 | 26 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,599 | 22 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,559 | 21 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,070 | 13 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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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 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#456 · 1 in 3,579
- Washington#525 · 1 in 4,810
- North Carolina#703 · 1 in 7,647
- Texas#938 · 1 in 12,987
- California#1,045 · 1 in 18,111
Best ever in a state: #222 in Louisiana, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #456 | 7 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Washington | #525 | 7 | 1 in 4,810 |
| North Carolina | #703 | 6 | 1 in 7,647 |
| Texas | #938 | 12 | 1 in 12,987 |
| California | #1,045 | 14 | 1 in 18,111 |
| Florida | #1,154 | 5 | 1 in 16,978 |
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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 Daylon
- 127 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,363)
- 367 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #2,363)
- 49 spots since 2015 (#2,412 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 2002 at #1,008 (154 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 36.1% of all boys named Daylon (1,187) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,538 (1943) | #3,538 |
| 1950s | 19 | #3,095 (1952) | #3,420 |
| 1960s | 42 | #3,318 (1963) | #3,666 |
| 1970s | 84 | #3,070 (1978) | #3,722 |
| 1980s | 153 | #2,504 (1985) | #3,385 |
| 1990s | 717 | #1,100 (1999) | #1,608 |
| 2000s | 1,187 | #1,008 (2002) | #1,309 |
| 2010s | 681 | #1,602 (2012) | #2,100 |
| 2020s | 396 | #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 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 18,391 of them was named Daylon, which outranked 89.1% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,141Kian104
- #1,141Richie104
- #1,141Tyrus104
- #1,149Daylon103
- #1,149Demonte103
- #1,149Juancarlos103
- #1,149Louie103
- #1,155Davante102
- #1,155Denis102
- #1,155Harris102
Tied with 5 names at #1,149; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.