Girl name#989 of girl names
Dahlia
Pronounced D AE1 L Y AH0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 135 years in use
How popular is Dahlia?
Dahlia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1890. It has been given to 17,931 children — the 989th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 1,300 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- D AE1 L Y AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Dahlia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Dahlia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Dahlia?
- Dahlia ranks 989th among girls' names in US records, with 17,931 births since 1890. Over the past decade it accounts for 9,596.
- Is Dahlia a unisex name?
- No. Dahlia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Dahlia most popular?
- 2024, when 1,300 children were given the name. It has been in use for 135 years and is still recorded as of 2024.