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Dailey

Girl · DAY-lee · Irish

Dailey is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “assembly”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Dailey mean?

Irish: spelling of the surname Daly, from Irish Ó Dálaigh

“assembly”

The Ó Dálaigh family, source of the surname Daly, were famous hereditary poets in medieval Ireland.

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Is Dailey a girl's or a boy's name?

Dailey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Dailey in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,131among girls
Babies in 2025
15about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Dailey, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Dailey in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 69 girls in the US were given Dailey or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,172, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.

1994Busiest: 16 in 20202025
Dailey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202411#8,941
202315#7,242
20220–
202113#8,019
202016#6,919
201911#9,106
201812#8,612
20179#10,685
201613#8,390
20155#16,413
201415#7,633
20136#14,577
201214#8,204
201110#10,370
20105#16,985
200910#10,675
20080–
20076#15,485
20069#11,412
20059#10,915
200411#9,259
200311#9,043
200211#8,831
20016#13,514
200012#8,020
19997#11,378
19985#14,116
19970–
19965#13,511
19955#13,380
19947#10,563

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