Daena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daena has been given to 638 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Daena, 2024
1 in 557,000
Daena over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Daena?
Daena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daena was born before 1991 — so the typical Daena is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 21.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 638
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Daena rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (18)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Daena
Daena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.5% against Daena's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Daena is used
Across 1910–2025, Daena was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 261,979 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daena around the world
Where Daena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2007#5,201in 2007
- Scotland1995–1995#639in 1995
- Ireland2015–2015#896in 2015
- France1998–2009#5,766in 2009
- South Australia1956–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Daena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Daena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.