Daine
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daine has been given to 601 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1990, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% boys, 50% girls all-time.
Babies named Daine, 2019
1 in 694,000
Daine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Daine over time
In 2019, Daine went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Daine?
Daine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daine was born before 1994 — so the typical Daine is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 303
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Daine 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 1990 (19)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.9% average annual change
Spellings of Daine
Daine is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 19.0% against Daine'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.
Daine around the world
Where Daine 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 & Wales1998–2004#3,009in 2004
- Canada1992–2007#2,479in 2007
- South Australia1984–2007#680in 2007
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.
Daine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Daine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.