Girl

Daina

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#9,597
10 girls
2015
#10,312
rank
1950
#2,682
rank

Daina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,173 in 1964.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,173 in 1964; #9,597 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daina in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#9,597 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #1,173.

Babies in 2025
10
Since 1880
2,527
Years on record
83

Babies named Daina, every year since 1880

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Girls

Daina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,173 in 1964 · most girls in one year: 88 (1964).

About the name Daina

In 2025, 10 US girls were named Daina, making it the 9,597th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,028 places from #8,569 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Daina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,173, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #10,312 in 2015 and #2,682 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Daina in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 2,527 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 528 babies named Daina.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US girls were named Daina; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Diana (369,771 babies since 1880), Dana (246,842 babies since 1880), Dayna (14,547 babies since 1880) and Daiana (1,161 babies since 1880).

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian and Lithuanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Daina in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202510#9,597——
202412#8,569——
202311#9,123——
20227#12,542——
202114#7,723——
201910#9,898——
201810#9,987——
201714#7,945——
201610#10,262——
201510#10,312——
20149#11,199——
201310#10,441——
201216#7,535——
201113#8,746——
201014#8,375——
200911#10,134——
200823#5,990——
200721#6,376——
200622#5,967——
200515#7,601——
200429#4,625——
200320#5,871——
200218#6,203——
200133#3,884——
200023#5,029——
199915#6,574——
199824#4,518——
199733#3,464——
199623#4,481——
199532#3,434——
199429#3,722——
199325#4,131——
199243#2,787——
199138#2,995——
199036#3,093——
198946#2,488——
198835#2,938——
198741#2,502——
198659#1,893——
198547#2,206——
198447#2,120——
198366#1,673——
198251#2,032——
198146#2,205——
198060#1,811——
197967#1,664——
197858#1,770——
197750#1,956——
197666#1,539——
197538#2,204——
197438#2,141——
197346#1,836——
197245#1,859——
197164#1,5355#5,054
197051#1,763——
196949#1,732——
196840#1,891——
196747#1,664——
196646#1,650——
196544#1,695——
196488#1,173——
196360#1,437——
196246#1,676——
196149#1,614——
196045#1,675——
195949#1,557——
195839#1,740——
195722#2,429——
195626#2,159——
195528#2,030——
195419#2,530——
195329#1,883——
195214#2,941——
195117#2,496——
195015#2,682——
19497#4,315——
19485#5,404——
19475#5,454——
19467#4,073——
19435#4,820——
19425#4,758——
19386#3,928——
19246#4,576——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).