girls:
10 births since 1998
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1943
#2223 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1943
#4835 (38th percentile)
The name Daylon is the #4,835 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,170 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 37.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,223 (51.5% percentile) for all time with 3,160 births since 1943. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1998.
Daylon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Daylon is available in 64 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (64 years for boys and 2 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 Daylon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daylon reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 18.4% percentile (ranked #664) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 75 births per million (ranked 18.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Daylon ranks #854 for boys (6.3% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 45.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Daylon reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #874) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daylon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Daylon is pronounced as DAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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