Dalan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.
Dalan by the numbers
Dalan was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 29 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Dalan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dalan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Dylanson of the sea10,158 in the US (2017)
- Dilantrue sea or faithful; a variant of Dylan229 in the US (2017)
- Daylanson of the sea; a modern respelling of Dylan81 in the US (2017)
- Dayanjudge7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Dolandark haired; from dubh lann11 in the US (2017)
- Dagangrain or corn9 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Dalan
Names that are said the same way as Dalan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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