Dain
#6,193 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dain has been given to 1,997 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #6,193 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Dain, 2025
1 in 237,000
Dain 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dain?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,193
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dain sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dains were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dain was born before 1988 — so the typical Dain is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 22.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,956
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (455).
Is Dain 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
- −916
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +6,240
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,097
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 22.6%
- Peak was 1978 (62)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.1% average annual change
Spellings of Dain
Dain is not the most common spelling — David is, with 54.4% against Dain's 0.03%.
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 Dain is used
Across 1910–2025, Dain was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 315,006 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Washington1 in 100,000
- 4Colorado1 in —
- 5Louisiana1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dain has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dain around the world
Where Dain 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 & Wales1996–2011#4,647in 2011
- Canada2003–2004#2,269in 2004
- South Australia1982–2006#657in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dain by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dain
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dain
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.