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Dayana

#716 in 2025Girls' name

God, through Diana

Dayana has been given to 15,603 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #716 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 777 recorded.

Babies named Dayana, 2025

1 in 8,460

Dayana over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dayana: meaning, origin, and history

God, through Diana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dayana means

Dayana belongs to the name family reached through Dayana → Diana → Dīāna. Its meaning is “god”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dayana is used in Spanish.

Dayana comes through English Diana.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Diana and Dīāna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Dayana is pronounced /daˈʝana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,598 girls were recorded with the name Dayana between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 777 in 2008; its best national rank was #412 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #612 in 2020 to #716 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #582 in 2015 to #716 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Dayana between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #12,638 in 2023.

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 Dayana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,460
392 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,100
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#716
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,863 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dayana 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,863 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dayanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayana was born before 2011 — so the typical Dayana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,598
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (5,759).

Is Dayana 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
−219
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−104
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−134
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.5%
Peak was 2008 (777)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#412
2008

Spellings of Dayana

Dayana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 38.7% against Dayana's 1.6%.

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 Dayana is used

Across 2016–2025, Dayana was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 1,220 girls, against 1 in 2,663 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 25,000).

482 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 1,220
  2. 2Texas1 in 1,613
  3. 3California1 in 1,818
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 1,961
  5. 5Virginia1 in 1,961
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 2,174
  7. 7Illinois1 in 2,273
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 2,439

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.

Geographically, Dayana is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 59% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Dayana around the world

Where Dayana 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
    2008–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dayana

People whose public names include Dayana, 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.

Dayana in other languages

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

DayaDaynaDyanaDaianaDajanaDayane

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

Dayana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#716
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 104
Best rank ever
#412
2008
Peak year
2008
777 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,598
Count in 2025
392

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,638
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dayana

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

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Names with a curve like Dayana

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

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Sibling names for Dayana

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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