Daytona
#12,213 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daytona has been given to 984 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #12,213 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 46 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.
Babies named Daytona, 2025
1 in 474,000
Daytona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Daytona over time
In 2025, Daytona went to 44% girls and 56% 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 Daytona?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,213
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daytona sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daytona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daytonas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daytona was born before 2005 — so the typical Daytona is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 731
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (318).
Is Daytona 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
- −1,733
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +250
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,124
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.2%
- Peak was 2006 (46)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Daytona
Daytona is not the most common spelling — Payton is, with 61.7% against Daytona's 0.75%.
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 Daytona is used
Across 1910–2025, Daytona was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 334,052 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kansas1 in —
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. Daytona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daytona around the world
Where Daytona 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 & Wales1996–2015#5,730in 2015
- France2011–2011#6,433in 2011
- Canada2003–2010#3,238in 2010
- South Australia2004–2010#521in 2010
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.
Daytona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Daytona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daytona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.