Dalett
Feminine
Dalett is a rare name used almost entirely within Hasidic communities, and the nearest documented thing to it is the Hebrew letter dalet — the fourth of the alphabet, whose name means a door.
How old is the name Dalett?
Dalett first appears in US birth records in 2020 — 5 years ago. The typical Dalett is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Dalett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dalett most popular?
Dalett peaked in 2021, reaching #1277 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 2,300 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dalett
Ours, offered as ours. The Hebrew alphabet's letters are named for objects — aleph an ox, bet a house, dalet a door — and that is genuinely old, going back to the Phoenician script the letters came from. Dalett sits close to the fourth of them. Whether the name was taken from the letter, or from a Yiddish form now lost, or made afresh, no record says. What can be said is that the community that uses it is small, specific, and has been making names this way for centuries.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented for the given name. The Hebrew letter dalet takes its name from a word for a door, and the letter's shape is traditionally read as a doorway. Whether the name derives from it is not recorded, and Yiddish naming has produced many forms whose origins are no longer traceable.
Pronouncing Dalett
DAH-let
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation within the community.
Nicknames for Dalett
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- First recorded
- 2020
- Most girls named
- 2021181 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1277reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −57.1%42 in 2025, from 98
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.
Dalett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dalet in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Daletts among us
people named Dalett are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Dalett
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dalett
- #3577
- Dalett on the 2025 chart
- #911
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dalett went to 42 girls in 2025, but Dalet is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 49, which makes it the 911th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,666 places above the chart.
- Dalett42
- Dalet7
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 38,268 for Dalett itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stefany test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dalett's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stefany climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stefany's path sketches the road Dalett is walking now.
Dalett 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 Dalett is headed
Dalett looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 21% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Dalett beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dalett in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- It is entirely distinct from every other name in an American classroom.
- It belongs clearly to one living community with its own naming tradition.
- It is very strongly marked as a community name and will need explaining outside it.
- There is no documented meaning, and the letter connection is a resemblance rather than a source.
- Dalett, Dalet and Daletta all appear and none is standard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daletts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Dalett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dalett?
- Dalett is the most-used spelling in US records — 42 of the 49 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Dalet.
- How popular is the name Dalett in 2025?
- Dalett ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dalett?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Dalett — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dalett with classmates?
- Dalett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Dalett
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