Dalaney
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 14 babies a year in the US.
Dalaney by the numbers
Dalaney was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Dalaney
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 Dalaney. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Delaneydark challenger; descendant of Dubhshláine1,270 in the US (2017)
- Dalany5 in the US (2017)
- Delaineydark challenger; descendant of Dubhshláine; a modern respelling of Delaney57 in the US (2017)
- Delanydescendant of the dark challenger; from Ó Dubhshláine51 in the US (2017)
- Daphneylaurel tree; a form of Daphne19 in the US (2017)
- Daleyassembly; from the surname Ó Dálaigh11 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dalaney
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