Fun Facts About the Name Dalayla
- 257 babies named Dalayla: U.S. records list 257 babies given the name Dalayla from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Dalayla Mean?
Dalayla is most often a respelled form of Dalila, the version of the biblical name Delilah used in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and several other languages. That name goes back to Hebrew דְּלִילָה (Delilah), usually explained from the root דלל (dalal), "to hang down, to be weak or thin," so its literal sense is "delicate" or "weak." A second and less certain explanation connects the name with Arabic dalal, "flirtation, coquetry," which is why some reference works gloss the name as "coquette." Which sense lies behind the biblical name is not settled.
The spelling Dalayla also resembles Layla (Arabic ليلى, "night"), and names spelled this way are sometimes treated as variants of it. The two names have separate origins, and it cannot be stated with confidence that every use of Dalayla belongs to one line rather than the other.
Dalayla Name History & Origins
The name belongs to the woman in the Book of Judges who is bribed by the Philistine lords to learn the secret of Samson's strength; she has his hair cut while he sleeps, and he is captured. The Hebrew text gives her name as דְּלִילָה. Greek and Latin Bibles used forms such as Dalila, and that spelling became standard in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish, while English Bibles used Delilah.
The Dalila form gained a well-known European setting through Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, first performed in 1877, which retells the biblical story. In Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries Dalila has long been used as an ordinary given name.
Dalayla is a later English-language respelling: it keeps the consonants of Dalila but writes the middle vowel with ay. It is used alongside Dalila and Delilah rather than descending from a separate older form. It is not the same name as Layla, the Arabic name meaning "night," which has its own separate history.
How Popular is the Name Dalayla?
Dalayla has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #6,010 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,484 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #10,435 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #6,010 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2022 | #6,780 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #7,343 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #6,126 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #7,106 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2018 | #8,254 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #8,923 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2016 | #8,502 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #11,106 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #12,202 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #15,059 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #11,491 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #9,883 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #12,563 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #14,041 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #10,245 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #10,294 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #12,688 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #12,095 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #11,859 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2003 | #12,721 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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