Meaning not yet researched.
Dayna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #543 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #543 in 1982; #6,604 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dayna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,604 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #543.
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Dayna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #543 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 361 (1988).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Dayna, making it the 6,604th most common girls’ name of the year, down 606 places from #5,998 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 girls named Dayna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #543, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 361, in 1988. For comparison, it was #3,547 in 2015 and #1,381 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dayna in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 7 babies. In all, 14,547 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,321 babies named Dayna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 337 US girls were named Dayna; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dayana (15,603 babies since 1880), Daina (2,527 babies since 1880), Dana (246,842 babies since 1880) and Danna (25,240 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Dayna in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,998 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,938 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2004 | 174 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2002 | 200 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2000 | 220 | #963 | — | — |
| 1999 | 220 | #946 | — | — |
| 1998 | 198 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1997 | 250 | #828 | — | — |
| 1996 | 224 | #879 | — | — |
| 1995 | 267 | #759 | 5 | #9,173 |
| 1994 | 261 | #784 | 5 | #9,123 |
| 1993 | 259 | #790 | — | — |
| 1992 | 278 | #754 | — | — |
| 1991 | 333 | #655 | — | — |
| 1990 | 351 | #640 | — | — |
| 1989 | 342 | #621 | 6 | #7,183 |
| 1988 | 361 | #571 | — | — |
| 1987 | 360 | #558 | 8 | #5,069 |
| 1986 | 260 | #697 | — | — |
| 1985 | 337 | #577 | 5 | #6,771 |
| 1984 | 321 | #574 | — | — |
| 1983 | 294 | #603 | — | — |
| 1982 | 356 | #543 | — | — |
| 1981 | 331 | #561 | — | — |
| 1980 | 340 | #547 | — | — |
| 1979 | 340 | #548 | — | — |
| 1978 | 245 | #656 | 6 | #5,205 |
| 1977 | 284 | #600 | 6 | #5,283 |
| 1976 | 226 | #675 | 8 | #4,090 |
| 1975 | 216 | #694 | 5 | #5,660 |
| 1974 | 276 | #575 | — | — |
| 1973 | 218 | #687 | 8 | #3,781 |
| 1972 | 285 | #576 | — | — |
| 1971 | 285 | #601 | — | — |
| 1970 | 287 | #605 | — | — |
| 1969 | 277 | #596 | — | — |
| 1968 | 255 | #603 | — | — |
| 1967 | 255 | #596 | 5 | #4,088 |
| 1966 | 213 | #662 | — | — |
| 1965 | 241 | #630 | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1964 | 273 | #606 | — | — |
| 1963 | 260 | #626 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1962 | 212 | #710 | — | — |
| 1961 | 175 | #792 | — | — |
| 1960 | 162 | #818 | 5 | #4,161 |
| 1959 | 164 | #797 | — | — |
| 1958 | 157 | #802 | — | — |
| 1957 | 132 | #888 | — | — |
| 1956 | 124 | #897 | — | — |
| 1955 | 123 | #877 | — | — |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,551 | 5 | #3,937 |
| 1952 | 58 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1951 | 58 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,521 | — | — |
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).