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Daylen

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Daylen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 142 births. Its best rank was 980th, in 2010.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1420.01% of boys
Peak year
2010201 births
Best rank
#980in 2010
Since 1979
4,205people given the name
Babies named Daylen, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,872 boys have been named Daylen in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 201 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 40%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 333 girls have also been given it, 7.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Daylen
1970s6
1980s49
1990s317
2000s1,218
2010s1,554
2020s728

In 2010, its biggest year

Daylen was the 980th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.

Names that rose and fell with Daylen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.