girls:
2.2k births since 1912
#3686 (35th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1913
#3464 (24th percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1912
#4743 (39th percentile)
The name Dayle is the #4,743 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,314 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 38.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,686 (35.5% percentile) for all time with 2,175 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #3,464 (24.4% percentile) for all time with 1,139 births since 1913.
Dayle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Dayle is available in 103 out of the 111 years between 1912 and 2022 (89 years for girls and 78 years for boys). 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 Dayle has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (65.6% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Dayle were girls.
For girls, Dayle reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 14.4% percentile (ranked #564) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 62 births per million (ranked 14.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Dayle reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dayle".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dayle is pronounced as dayl, which has 1 syllables.
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