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Dayanna

#1,811 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dayanna has been given to 3,916 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #1,811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 199 recorded.

Babies named Dayanna, 2025

1 in 29,900

Dayanna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dayanna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dayanna means

Dayanna is a given name.

The naming story behind Dayanna

Wikidata records Dayanna as a given name. The entity identifier is Q114174607, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,916 girls were recorded with the name Dayanna between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 199 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,244 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,580 in 2020 to #1,811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,405 in 2015 to #1,811 in 2025.

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.

How common is Dayanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,900
111 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,703 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dayanna 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,703 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dayannas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,916
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (1,596).

Is Dayanna 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
−13
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−231
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−406
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.8%
Peak was 2009 (199)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,244
2009

Spellings of Dayanna

Dayanna is not the most common spelling — Deanna is, with 29.2% against Dayanna's 0.85%.

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 Dayanna is used

Across 2016–2025, Dayanna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 10,302 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 7,143
  3. 3Georgia1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 8,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 11,111
  6. 6Maryland1 in 12,500
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Washington1 in 16,667

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.

Dayanna around the world

Where Dayanna 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
    2021–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2025
    #2,408
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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.

Dayanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 231
Best rank ever
#1,244
2009
Peak year
2009
199 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,916
Count in 2025
111

Names similar to Dayanna

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

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Names with a curve like Dayanna

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

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Sibling names for Dayanna

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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