In 2025, 35 US girls were named Dayanara, making it the 4,092nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 676 places from #3,416 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 46 girls named Dayanara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #345, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 909. For comparison, it was #2,657 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dayanara in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 41 babies. In all, 6,568 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,759 babies named Dayanara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 562 US girls were named Dayanara; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dayanira, Dayannara and Danara are summarised on this page.