Dayle

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dayle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#261highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–1997

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3824

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 5 of the 17 years from 1996 to 2012.

In 1998: #369 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1821 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1994–2012 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #299 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1994–1998
Highest recorded position: #261 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1994–1998).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2012
Most recently recorded at #3987 among boys in England and Wales, in 2012.
England and Wales · Boys

Dayle appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 5 years beginning in 1994, and has registered 22 births with the name.

Dayle across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dayle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#564 (1996)	#564 (1996)	#3987 (2012)	5 of 17	59 (1996–2012)	30 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#299 (1994)	#261 (1997)	#369 (1998)	5 of 5	22 (1994–1998)	7 (1997)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#3126 (1996)	#3824 (1997)	2 of 2	7 (1996–1997)	4 (1996)

Dayle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dayle in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	3 of 10	17
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1994 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #261 in Republic of Ireland in 1997.

Dayle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#564	30	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#261	7	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#299	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Dayle is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Dayle, between 1994 and 2012, in 7 of those 19 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1994–1998	5	#261 in 1997
England and Wales	1996–2012	5	#564 in 1996

No registrar recorded it for 9 years after 2002; it appears again in 2012.

Dayle was ranked #261 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Allan#261
Arran#261
Bill#261
Bobby#261
Anton#286
Aonghus#286
Conan#286
Conn#286

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1994 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #261 in Republic of Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Dayle

Dayle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dayle across 3 official records

Dayle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Dayle is officially recorded

Names published alongside Dayle

Dayle at a glance

Dayle across 3 official records

Dayle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Dayle