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
2groupings it qualifies for

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 →

Dayle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1994 and 2012, ranked in 7 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #261, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 30 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 2 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
9 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#3,987position in 2012, its most recent recorded year
2 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
30births registered in its largest year, 199625 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Dayana · #1325, 15y
Dayna · #192, 34y
Dayne · #319, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aloysius · #256, 12y
Connaire · #272, 10y
Caoilte · #281, 9y
Dillion · #241, 10y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Dafydd · #261, 28y
Blossom · #262, 30y
Clarke · #262, 29y
Dhruv · #262, 30y

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.

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

Dayle appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dayle

Dayle at a glance

Dayle across 3 official records

Dayle by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dayle appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dayle