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Dayna

#6,603 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Dana

Dayna has been given to 14,547 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #6,603 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 361 recorded.

Babies named Dayna, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dayna: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dayna means

Dayna is a variant of Dana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dayna → Dana → Dan → דָּן. The family’s proposed meaning is “logical argument”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements דין.

Origin, language, and formation

Dayna is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,460 girls were recorded with the name Dayna between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 361 in 1988; its best national rank was #543 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,700 in 2020 to #6,603 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,547 in 2015 to #6,603 in 2025.

In the United States, 87 boys were recorded with the name Dayna between 1953 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1973; its best national rank was #3,779 in 1973.

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 Dayna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,603
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dayna 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayna was born before 1983 — so the typical Dayna is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
14,255
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (3,302).

Is Dayna 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
−608
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,903
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,056
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 1988 (361)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#543
1982

Spellings of Dayna

Dayna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.9% against Dayna's 0.31%.

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 Dayna is used

Across 1910–2025, Dayna was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,786 girls, against 1 in 14,321 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

056 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,786
  2. 2Michigan1 in 6,667
  3. 3Utah1 in 7,143
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 10,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 10,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 11,111

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. Dayna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dayna around the world

Where Dayna 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2014
    #681
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2000
    #348
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1987–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    1990–2025
    #803
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Dayna

People whose public names include Dayna, 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.

Dayna in other languages

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

DayaDainaDyanaDayana

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

Dayna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,903
Best rank ever
#543
1982
Peak year
1988
361 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,460
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,779
1973
Peak year
1973
8 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dayna

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

DayanaRaynaReynaDaylaShaynaChynaJaynaDaysiDayraDayshaDaylinLaynaDayannaAlynaAlaynaElaynaDayanaraDayleLeynaDayamiZaynaDayaAleynaDayani

Names with a curve like Dayna

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

CorinaAleciaAdrianLeeannMonikaAdrianneMaricelaMarlenaBridgetteSusanaRichelleDeidra

Sibling names for Dayna

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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