Dalia
A name on the way up: more girls got it last year than in the quiet stretch a decade ago, and most Poles have still never met one. Its Germanic root means "branch" or a flowering shoot of a plant.
Dalia Pronunciation
Dalia is pronounced DAHL-yah (/ˈdalja/).
What Dalia means
Where Dalia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dalia has a Germanic origin, and it reached its familiar shape through a flower. The dahlia was named for Anders Dahl, an eighteenth-century Swedish botanist whose surname belongs to that Germanic root. The plant lent its name to people.
The name found a second home in Arabic and Jewish naming. There it is read as a branch, a flowering branch, the pęd that pushes out from the main stem. That sense of branch was attached to the sound rather than handed down from the botanist. Two traditions hold the same word.
A girl called Dalia writes her short name on the form at the urząd, and the clerk reads it without pausing. The meaning stays close to the plant: gałąź, a branch that flowers.
When Dalia celebrates name day
Dalia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 October.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dalia
1 in 18771 women in Poland is named Dalia. 1,201 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #881 among female names.
Dalia's popularity over time
58 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #325 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2003.
Where Dalia is most popular
Dalia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 121% above the national average (30 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+86%) and Pomeranian (+86%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Subcarpathian, 78% and 64% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian30 girls born+121%
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Lower Silesian47 girls born+86%
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Pomeranian44 girls born+86%
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Lubusz12 girls born+50%
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Warmian-Masurian16 girls born+39%
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Lesser Poland40 girls born+10%
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Opole8 girls born+8%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian17 girls born−3%
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Lublin16 girls born−3%
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Masovian49 girls born−14%
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Greater Poland23 girls born−33%
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Podlaskie7 girls born−34%
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Łódź11 girls born−46%
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Silesian18 girls born−51%
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Subcarpathian7 girls born−64%
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Świętokrzyskie2 girls born−78%
Dalia as a middle name
Dalia is a first name for 1,201 women in Poland and a middle name for another 316, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 381st, between Ala (316) and Anh (313).
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#379 Eufemia317
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#380 Ala316
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#381 Dalia316
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#382 Anh313
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#383 Ingrid313