Dain
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,997since 1943
Dain over time
Rank among boys' names. Dain has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #2,545 | 40 |
| 2002 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,449 | 33 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #2,162 | 36 |
| 1992 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #2,095 | 35 |
| 1990 | #1,516 | 56 |
| 1989 | #1,567 | 51 |
| 1988 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #1,255 | 59 |
| 1985 | #1,268 | 57 |
| 1984 | #1,280 | 52 |
| 1983 | #1,448 | 43 |
| 1982 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #1,852 | 30 |
| 1979 | #1,340 | 48 |
| 1978 | #1,109 | 62 |
| 1977 | #2,008 | 24 |
| 1976 | #2,113 | 22 |
| 1975 | #1,835 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #1,400 | 36 |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 25 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 31 |
| 1970 | #1,374 | 37 |
| 1969 | #1,642 | 25 |
| 1968 | #1,506 | 27 |
| 1967 | #1,809 | 19 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1963 | #2,300 | 13 |
| 1962 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #1,997 | 17 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
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| 1954 | #1,593 | 23 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #1,939 | 16 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #2,453 | 10 |
| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #2,143 | 12 |
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| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dain! It came in at #3,538, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1945, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dain
- 902 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #6,143)
- 5,879 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #6,143)
- 1,085 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1978 at #1,109 (62 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,481 boys born in 1978 were named Dain (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.8% of all boys named Dain (455) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 41 | #2,143 (1946) | #2,895 |
| 1950s | 94 | #1,593 (1954) | #2,759 |
| 1960s | 155 | #1,506 (1968) | #2,201 |
| 1970s | 331 | #1,109 (1978) | #1,664 |
| 1980s | 455 | #1,255 (1986) | #1,522 |
| 1990s | 348 | #1,516 (1990) | #2,331 |
| 2000s | 330 | #2,087 (2000) | #3,268 |
| 2010s | 168 | #3,994 (2010) | #5,494 |
| 2020s | 75 | #5,241 (2024) | #7,186 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dain in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 32,425 of them was named Dain, which outranked 83.3% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,258Leigh58
- #1,258Mauro58
- #1,258Vidal58
- #1,268Dain57
- #1,268Darien57
- #1,268Freeman57
- #1,268Jovon57
- #1,282Antwone56
- #1,282Burton56
- #1,282Camilo56
Tied with 13 names at #1,268; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.