# Dayle (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dayle/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Dale |
| US babies named this | 3,320 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,139 / 2,181 (66% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 66, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 17 | 6,397 |
| 2002 | 16 | 6,791 |
| 2003 | 14 | 7,691 |
| 2004 | 9 | 10,906 |
| 2005 | 9 | 11,143 |
| 2006 | 14 | 8,358 |
| 2007 | 6 | 16,000 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,224 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,727 |
| 2010 | 6 | 15,452 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,111 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,898 |
| 2021 | 5 | 15,831 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,463 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13,903 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | 5,204 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,265 |
| 1983 | 9 | 4,214 |
| 1984 | 6 | 5,740 |
| 1985 | 6 | 5,962 |
| 1988 | 9 | 4,872 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,373 |
| 1991 | 7 | 6,673 |
| 1993 | 6 | 7,845 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,120 |
| 1995 | 7 | 7,171 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,598 |
| 2000 | 6 | 9,358 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,278 |
| 2008 | 5 | 12,967 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 30 | 564 |
| 1997 | 16 | 914 |
| 1998 | 6 | 1,821 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |

## People named Dayle

- Dayle Haddon, Canadian dancer, model, actress (1948–2024)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.