Daine
Daine was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 601 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,553, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1990, the peak
Daine peaked in 1990, when 24 babies were given it (19 boys, #3,186 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,553 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,591 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,457 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,010 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #12,653 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #12,665 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #8,958 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,278 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,156 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 12 | #6,711 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #10,938 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #9,318 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 11 | #6,608 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #9,821 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #11,005 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,430 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,363 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,415 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,439 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,284 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,135 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,526 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 11 | #5,058 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #4,931 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,159 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,433 | 19 | #3,186 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 12 | #4,320 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,856 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,113 | 7 | #5,604 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,295 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,564 | 13 | #3,442 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,500 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,620 | 11 | #3,666 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,413 | 5 | #6,557 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,758 | 5 | #6,473 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,555 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,080 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,071 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,364 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,666 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,469 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,347 | 5 | #5,053 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,479 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,993 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,546 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,881 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,556 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,286 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,128 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,486 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,400 | 6 | #3,708 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,970 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,232 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,082 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,580 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,514 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,414 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,898 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,163 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,027 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,459 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,452 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,958 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,819 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Daine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 601 Americans recorded as Daine, 50% are girls and 50% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daine, and how old are they?
An estimated 551 Americans named Daine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 30 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 889 people named Daine (542 women and girls, 347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 566 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Daine?
Daine is a less common spelling of Dayne: SSA has recorded 601 Daine and 4,091 Dayne since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 341,331 babies since 1880, Daine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 861 babies recorded by SSA was a Daine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Daine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerby | 1,006 |
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 Daine and names like it
- Compare Daine and DayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaine peaked in 1990.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Daine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Daine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.