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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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| 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 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#460 · 1 in 3,443
- Louisiana#477 · 1 in 3,026
- Texas#733 · 1 in 8,453
- California#1,504 · 1 in 30,415
Best ever in a state: #222 in Louisiana, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #460 | 6 | 1 in 3,443 |
| Louisiana | #477 | 9 | 1 in 3,026 |
| Texas | #733 | 19 | 1 in 8,453 |
| California | #1,504 | 8 | 1 in 30,415 |
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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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Daylon, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,479 names at #14,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 19,114 of them was named Daylon, which outranked 89.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,216Keion101
- #1,216Theron101
- #1,216Trenten101
- #1,224Daylon100
- #1,224Bill100
- #1,224Kentrell100
- #1,224Kirby100
- #1,231Jaquez99
- #1,231Kadin99
- #1,231Kelsey99
Tied with 6 names at #1,224; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.