girls:
16 births since 1984
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1941
#2850 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1941
#5812 (25th percentile)
The name Dalen is the #5,812 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,955 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 24.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,850 (37.8% percentile) for all time with 1,939 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1984.
Dalen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Dalen is available in 73 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dalen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dalen reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #731) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 48 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dalen ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 31.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dalen reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #848) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dalen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dalen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Dalen is pronounced as DAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-luhn, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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