Dayna
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · Last seen for boys in 1995 at #8,868
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 356 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,460since 1937
Dayna over time
Rank among girls' names. Dayna has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,341 | 81 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,602 | 139 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,495 | 147 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,307 | 169 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,249 | 174 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 188 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,063 | 200 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,076 | 197 | — | |
| 2000 | #962 | 220 | — | |
| 1999 | #946 | 220 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,007 | 198 | — | |
| 1997 | #828 | 250 | — | |
| 1996 | #879 | 224 | — | |
| 1995 | #758 | 267 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #784 | 261 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #789 | 259 | — | |
| 1992 | #753 | 278 | — | |
| 1991 | #655 | 333 | — | |
| 1990 | #638 | 351 | — | |
| 1989 | #621 | 342 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #570 | 361 | — | |
| 1987 | #557 | 360 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #696 | 260 | — | |
| 1985 | #577 | 337 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #572 | 321 | — | |
| 1983 | #603 | 294 | — | |
| 1982 | #543 | 356 | — | |
| 1981 | #560 | 331 | — | |
| 1980 | #547 | 340 | — | |
| 1979 | #548 | 340 | — | |
| 1978 | #655 | 245 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #599 | 284 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #675 | 226 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #692 | 216 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #574 | 276 | — | |
| 1973 | #687 | 218 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #576 | 285 | — | |
| 1971 | #601 | 285 | — | |
| 1970 | #605 | 287 | — | |
| 1969 | #596 | 277 | — | |
| 1968 | #603 | 255 | — | |
| 1967 | #596 | 255 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #662 | 213 | — | |
| 1965 | #629 | 241 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #606 | 273 | — | |
| 1963 | #626 | 260 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #709 | 212 | — | |
| 1961 | #792 | 175 | — | |
| 1960 | #817 | 162 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #796 | 164 | — | |
| 1958 | #801 | 157 | — | |
| 1957 | #887 | 132 | — | |
| 1956 | #897 | 124 | — | |
| 1955 | #876 | 123 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 56 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,549 | 40 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #1,250 | 58 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,215 | 58 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,375 | 44 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,512 | 37 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,648 | 32 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,722 | 31 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,094 | 20 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,450 | 31 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
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| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dayna! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dayna
- 584 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #6,546)
- 2,870 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #6,546)
- 3,013 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 457 spots in 1955 (#1,333 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1998 (#828 → #1,007)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1982 at #543 (356 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1955–1997
- Highest: 1 in 4,721 girls born in 1979 were named Dayna (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #543 in 1982, was only 1 in 4,757 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all girls named Dayna (3,302) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 13 | #3,434 (1937) | #3,641 |
| 1940s | 192 | #1,450 (1945) | #2,266 |
| 1950s | 956 | #796 (1959) | #1,098 |
| 1960s | 2,323 | #596 (1969) | #664 |
| 1970s | 2,662 | #548 (1979) | #621 |
| 1980s | 3,302 | #543 (1982) | #585 |
| 1990s | 2,641 | #638 (1990) | #804 |
| 2000s | 1,654 | #962 (2000) | #1,378 |
| 2010s | 556 | #2,341 (2010) | #3,112 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,676 (2020) | #5,074 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dayna in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 5,106 of them was named Dayna, which outranked 95.4% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 369,642 of them was named Dayna, which outranked 14.0% 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).
Tied with 1,063 names at #6,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.