Daina
Daina was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,594 among girls’ names; 2,527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Daina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 34 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daina?
#9,594 among girls’ names, 2025
Daina rose from #10,307 in 2015 to #9,594 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.2 per million.
88 babies in 1964, the peak
Daina peaked in 1964, when 88 girls were given it, #1,173 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,594 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,564 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,118 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,537 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,718 | 8.5 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,893 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,982 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,941 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,258 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,307 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,193 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,436 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,531 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,742 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,371 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,130 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,987 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,372 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,965 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,596 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,621 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,866 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,198 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,880 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,024 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,568 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,515 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,461 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,476 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,429 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,717 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,126 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,782 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,989 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,088 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,483 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,933 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,500 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,892 | 34.4 |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,205 | 27.3 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,119 | 27.9 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,673 | 39.5 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,032 | 30.1 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,205 | 27.6 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,811 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,664 | 41.7 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,770 | 37.9 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,956 | 32.6 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,539 | 45.0 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,204 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,141 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,836 | 31.5 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,859 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,535 | 38.5 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,763 | 29.2 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,732 | 29.0 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,891 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,664 | 28.5 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,650 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,695 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 88 | #1,173 | 46.4 |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,437 | 31.1 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,675 | 23.4 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,613 | 24.3 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,674 | 22.3 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,556 | 24.2 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,739 | 19.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,428 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,158 | 13.0 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,029 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,529 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,882 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,940 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,495 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,681 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,314 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,402 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,452 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,072 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,818 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,756 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,926 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,574 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daina has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 83 years of records.
Girls and boys named Daina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daina, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,527 Americans ever recorded as Daina. The median Daina alive today is 47 years old; half are between 34 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 2,852 people named Daina (2,805 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,332 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 468 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 757 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 645 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 326 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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).
Where are babies named Daina born?
The states with the most babies named Daina are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 199 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 97 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 94 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Daina?
Daina is a less common spelling of Dayna: SSA has recorded 2,527 Daina and 14,547 Dayna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 332,455 babies since 1880, Daina is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,167 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Daina
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 Daina and names like it
- Compare Daina and DaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaina peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daina since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Daina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.