Dayle
Dayle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 829th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1946100 births
- Best rank
- #829in 1946
- Since 1912
- 3,320people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,181 girls have been named Dayle in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 100 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 31%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Dayle is used for both sexes: 34% of its bearers are boys (1,139), most of them born around 1958.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dayle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | |
| 1920s | 39 | |
| 1930s | 70 | |
| 1940s | 506 | |
| 1950s | 674 | |
| 1960s | 251 | |
| 1970s | 168 | |
| 1980s | 142 | |
| 1990s | 167 | |
| 2000s | 109 | |
| 2010s | 16 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Dayle was the 829th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1946 were Mary, Linda, Patricia, Barbara and Carol. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Dayle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marshapeak 1952
- Kathleenpeak 1951
- Glindapeak 1951
- Paulettapeak 1948
- Paulettepeak 1948
- Corlisspeak 1946
- Michaelenepeak 1949
- Diannpeak 1947
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.