Dalya
Dalya is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Dalya
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Dalya is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Dalya
The earliest SSA record of Dalya as a baby girl name dates back to 1976, when 5 babies received it. 2005 was its biggest year on record, with 24 newborns named Dalya — #5,266 in the national rankings. About 33% of every Dalya on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Dalya last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 10 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 544 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Dalya
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Dalya. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
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About the name Dalya
Dalya is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 544 births in the dataset. Dalya's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #5,266. Use the chart and map above to compare Dalya's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.