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Dayne

#5,081 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dayne has been given to 4,091 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #5,081 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 148 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Dayne, 2025

1 in 174,000

Dayne over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Dayne went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19222025

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.

Dayne: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dayne means

Dayne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dayne is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,885 boys were recorded with the name Dayne between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 148 in 2000; its best national rank was #996 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,435 in 2020 to #5,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,978 in 2015 to #5,081 in 2025.

In the United States, 206 girls were recorded with the name Dayne between 1946 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1990; its best national rank was #4,539 in 1946.

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 Dayne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,081
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dayne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayne was born before 1998 — so the typical Dayne is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,746
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2000s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (1,172).

Is Dayne 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
−345
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,646
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,103
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.8%
Peak was 2000 (148)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#996
2000

Spellings of Dayne

Dayne is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 19.5% against Dayne's 0.21%.

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 Dayne is used

Across 1910–2025, Dayne was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 101,902 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 16,667
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  3. 3Iowa1 in 50,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dayne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dayne around the world

Where Dayne 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
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1988–1996
    #359
    in 1996
  • Ireland
    1988–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • France
    1999–1999
    #3,719
    in 1999
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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 Dayne

People whose public names include Dayne, 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.

Dayne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,646
Best rank ever
#996
2000
Peak year
2000
148 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,885
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,539
1946
Peak year
1990
15 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
206
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dayne

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

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Names with a curve like Dayne

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

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Sibling names for Dayne

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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