How Many People Are Named Daly?
people named Daly are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 970,979 people in the US has this name
Based on 356 babies named Daly in Social Security records from 1988 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
21 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was a variant of DALEY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Daly in English. Counting Daly and these spellings together, about 953 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Daly, 86.6% were girls and 13.5% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 90.8% of the babies were girls then and 88.3% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Daly alive today is about 19 years old, and 81% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 28 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Daly first appears in the records in 1988 and was given most often in 2002, to 21 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1988 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Daly has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #5,496, in 2002. Among boys, its best rank was #8,988, in 1993.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #5,496 (2002) | #8,988 (1993) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #8,281 in the 1990s | #15,602 in the 2010s |
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