Dalayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- da-LAY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Dalayah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
Where does Dalayah come from?
Modern: probably a variant of Dalia or Delilah
Is Dalayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Dalayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dalayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,721st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Dalayah, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer girls named Dalayah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Dalayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dalayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,890 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,034 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
Names like Dalayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Zalayah, Aziyah, Kaliyah, Alaiyah, Kamiyah, Jaliyah, Hadassah, Jaziyah, Naziyah, Aaliyah
Names related to Dalayah
Dalilah, Daliyah, Daliah, Dalylah, Dalayla, Daleah, Dalaya, Dalal
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dalayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dalayah, updated 20 October 2026.