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Daina

#9,594 in 2025Girls' name

Latvian folk song

Daina has been given to 2,527 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #9,594 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Daina, 2025

1 in 332,000

Daina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daina: meaning, origin, and history

Latvian folk song

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daina means

Daina means “Latvian folk song”, associated with daina.

Origin, language, and formation

Daina is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,522 girls were recorded with the name Daina between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,173 in 1964.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,307 in 2015 to #9,594 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Daina between 1971 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1971; its best national rank was #5,052 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Daina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,594
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daina was born before 1978 — so the typical Daina is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,476
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (523).

Is Daina 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
−1,030
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+713
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1964 (88)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,173
1964

Spellings of Daina

Daina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.7% against Daina's 0.05%.

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 Daina is used

Across 1910–2025, Daina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 172,374 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Mississippi1 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. Daina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daina around the world

Where Daina 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 & Wales
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    2003–2013
    #747
    in 2013
  • France
    1970–2025
    #1,345
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,024
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1953–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Daina

People whose public names include Daina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Daina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Daina. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaiaDanaDaenaDaynaDianaDaiana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Daina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,173
1964
Peak year
1964
88 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,522
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,052
1971
Peak year
1971
5 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DaijaDairaDaiseyDaijahDailynDailaDaizyIrinaTainaJainaDaishaZainaDaisieDaianaLainaChinaBrinaZeinaArinaLovinaElvinaKorinaErinaElina

Names with a curve like Daina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MagdaJeniseLeeanneJulianeRosalvaKendaDarceyZoraidaJohnaAndreJenineMikki

Sibling names for Daina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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