Dalen is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dalen is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Dalen. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dalen is #3,459 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dalen.
While Dalen isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2001 the name Dalen reached its highest popularity with #1,234 in our ranking of all male first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their son Dalen (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five boys named Dalen to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Dalen has been given to babies in 72 of the 143 years since records began, making boys with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dalen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 27 babies were born with the name Dalen. This puts the name in rank 3,477 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 5,978,741 newborns was named Dalen that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Dalen has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of having a man or boy named Dalen in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Dalen is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Dalen live in Indiana, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 103,369 men and boys in Indiana for their name before you meet one who answers with Dalen.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Dalen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dalen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dalen, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dalen sounds like this:
