Dain
Dain was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,193 among boys’ names; 1,997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Dain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 24 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dain?
#6,193 among boys’ names, 2025
Dain fell from #5,096 in 2015 to #6,193 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 8.2 per million.
62 babies in 1978, the peak
Dain peaked in 1978, when 62 boys were given it, #1,115 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,193 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,277 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,980 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,563 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,401 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,432 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,489 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,778 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,573 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,805 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,096 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,053 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,500 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,159 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,020 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,013 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,609 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,500 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,616 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,698 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,178 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,794 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,548 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,574 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,221 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,088 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,876 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,719 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,462 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,445 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,402 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,257 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,166 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,412 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,097 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 56 | #1,515 | 27.3 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,566 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,526 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,614 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,258 | 32.0 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,267 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,282 | 28.8 |
| 1983 | 43 | #1,450 | 24.0 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,422 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 27 | #1,999 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,863 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 48 | #1,341 | 27.9 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,115 | 37.8 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,015 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,125 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,843 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,139 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,406 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,779 | 15.4 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,563 | 17.5 |
| 1970 | 37 | #1,376 | 19.9 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,649 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,511 | 15.5 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,821 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,662 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,288 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,699 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,326 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,543 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,013 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,720 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,868 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,080 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,675 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,661 | 4.7 |
| 1954 | 23 | #1,600 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,921 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,954 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,419 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,088 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,485 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,647 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,837 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,175 | 7.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,649 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dain has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dain, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,997 Americans ever recorded as Dain. The median Dain alive today is 37 years old; half are between 24 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,967 people named Dain (175 women and girls, 1,792 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,807 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 405 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 646 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 468 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 188 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 111,568 babies since 1880, Dain is the second most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 149 babies (9.4%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dain
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dain and names like it
- Compare Dain and DanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDain peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dain since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Dain.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dain alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.