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Dhalia

Gender
Girl
Say it
DAL-yuh
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Dhalia is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “dahlia flower”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Dhalia mean?

English: spelling of Dahlia, the flower named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl

“dahlia flower”

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

Dhalia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Dhalia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Dhalia, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Dhalia in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 17 in 20072025
Dhalia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
20249#10,266
202317#6,675
20220–
20219#10,287
202014#7,554
201910#9,730
201815#7,405
201710#9,939
20167#12,871
201510#10,143
201414#8,050
201311#9,607
201213#8,628
20117#13,339
201017#7,214
200912#9,375
200813#8,961
200717#7,390
200611#9,897
200510#10,123
200412#8,711
20036#13,837
20028#11,102
20010–
20007#11,794
19997#11,378
19986#12,420
19970–
19965#13,511
19955#13,380
19948#9,580

Names like Dhalia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Dhalia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dhalia, updated 20 October 2026.