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
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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.