Given name & surname · also Arabic
Dalia
“dahlia”·“one who is gentle”·“resembling a slender tree branch”
Dalia is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “dahlia”, “one who is gentle”, and “resembling a slender tree branch”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “dahlia”, “one who is gentle”, and “resembling a slender tree branch”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Arabic and Hebrew naming traditions.
How it developed
From Italian Dalia, from Arabic دَالِيَة, from Bengali ডালিয়া.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dalia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14,297
- 6 boys · 14,291 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 516 babies
- 2025
- 340
- #800 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +30%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 340 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 800 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 29.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 516 in 1994. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (80). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 19,080 as a first name in 2020; 743 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dalia’s family of names
Dalia has a related form in Dalila. Dalia has a related form in Dalya. Dalia has a related form in Dalis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Dalilavariant
- Daliahvariant
- Daliyahvariant
- Daleahvariant
- Dalyavariant
- Daliyavariant
- Daleavariant
- Dalisvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dalia
- Dalia GrybauskaitėPresident of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019 (born 1956)
- Dalia ItzikIsraeli politicianborn 1952
- Dalia El BeheryEgyptian actress and modelborn 1970
- Dalia KaddariItalian sprinterborn 2001
- Dalia HernándezMexican actress known for Apocalypto (2006)born 1985
- Dalia MuccioliItalian road cyclistborn 1993
- Dalia StasevskaFinnish conductorborn 1984
- Dalia MostafaEgyptian actressborn 1980
- Dalia DornerIsraeli judgeborn 1934
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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