Dalary
Feminine
Dalary is a genuinely new name in the American record — its whole history fits inside the span of one childhood, and most of the people who carry it are still in elementary school. It has three easy syllables and ends in the same bright -ry that Emery and Avery end in, while its opening sits close to Dalia. Its strongest ground is California, Texas and Arizona, so its story so far is a story of the Southwest.
How old is the name Dalary?
Dalary first appears in US birth records in 2014 — 11 years ago. The typical Dalary is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,100 people named Dalary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dalary most popular?
Dalary peaked in 2017, reaching #818 nationally. Today it ranks #1163, 345 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dalary
Some names arrive without paperwork. Dalary shows up in American records all at once, in the states along the southern border and the Pacific — the same places where Dalia, Daleyza and Dulce were being written on birth certificates in the same years — and it has the sound of a name built by ear rather than borrowed from a book. Say it in English and it lands like Avery; say it in Spanish and every letter still does exactly what it should, which is a rare piece of engineering in a three-syllable name. Its wave is recent enough that the first Dalarys have not yet finished school, so almost everything this name will come to mean is still ahead of it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning has been established for Dalary. What is documented is the shape of its use: it appears in United States birth records only in the past decade or so, clustered in California, Texas and Arizona, and it has never been common enough anywhere for a settled etymology to attach to it. It resembles Dalia and Daleyza in its first syllables and Hilary and Valery in its ending, but resemblance is not descent.
Pronouncing Dalary
DAL-uh-ree
English speakers most often stress the first syllable: DAL-uh-ree. In Spanish-speaking households it is commonly da-LA-ree, with the stress in the middle and a fuller first vowel. Both are in real use, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people toward.
Nicknames for Dalary
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2014
- Most girls named
- 2017334 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #818reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −7.4%199 in 2025, from 215
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dalary in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Dalarys among us
people named Dalary are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,077 born in 2025 was named Dalary
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ireland test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dalary's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ireland climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ireland's path sketches the road Dalary is walking now.
Dalary sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Dalary is headed
Dalary should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dalary beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dalary in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in both English and Spanish — no silent letters, no ambiguous vowels, nothing a teacher has to guess at.
- Rare enough that a child is unlikely to share it with anyone in her school, and new enough to carry no inherited associations.
- Three syllables with a natural first-syllable stress, which makes it easy to call across a room and easy to shorten.
- Yields obvious informal short forms — Dali, Lari — without any of them being obligatory.
- It has no established meaning. If having an answer ready when a child asks what her name means matters to you, this name will not supply one, and any meaning you find online for it is somebody's invention rather than a record.
- Expect it to be heard as Dalia, Daleyza, Valerie or Hilary on first introduction, and to be spelled back to you wrongly on forms. The spelling itself is logical, so a single repetition usually fixes it.
- The stress varies by household — DAL-uh-ree in English, da-LA-ree in Spanish — so she may hear her own name pronounced two ways in one day.
- Almost everyone who has this name is a child right now. There are no older Dalarys to point to, which means the name will grow up alongside her rather than arriving already furnished.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dalarys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Dalary are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dalary in 2025?
- Dalary ranks #1163 among US girl names in 2025, with 199 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dalary?
- About 1 in every 8,077 US girls born in 2025 was named Dalary — 199 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dalary with classmates?
- Dalary will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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