Dayan
Dayan is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,479 among girls’ names and #3,866 among boys’, #7,453 among all names counting both); 746 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayan?
#3,866 among boys’ names, 2025
Dayan rose from #5,105 in 2015 to #3,866 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 16.4 per million.
41 babies in 2024, the peak
Dayan peaked in 2024, when 41 boys were given it, #3,005 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,479 | 28 | #3,866 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 41 | #3,005 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 27 | #4,026 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 20 | #4,885 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 23 | #4,392 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 21 | #4,570 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 17 | #5,388 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 21 | #4,633 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,109 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,248 | 20 | #4,820 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,345 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,209 | 16 | #5,531 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,264 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,436 | 21 | #4,574 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,585 | 8 | #8,934 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,492 | 10 | #7,709 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,718 | 12 | #6,890 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,216 | 25 | #4,052 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,969 | 10 | #7,721 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,189 | 14 | #5,850 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,606 | 17 | #4,867 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,840 | 22 | #4,035 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,108 | 13 | #5,620 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,673 | 10 | #6,640 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,416 | 10 | #6,558 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,092 | 10 | #6,415 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,669 | 8 | #7,306 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,462 | 11 | #5,548 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,313 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,020 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,165 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,690 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,492 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,761 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,261 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,050 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,079 | 5 | #5,397 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,158 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,064 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,708 | 6 | #4,048 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,266 |
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 Dayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 746 Americans recorded as Dayan, 27% are girls and 73% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayan, and how old are they?
An estimated 733 Americans named Dayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,406 people named Dayan (495 women and girls, 911 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 111,574 babies since 1880, Dayan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 158 babies (21%), the second 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 Dayan
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 Dayan and names like it
- Compare Dayan and DanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDayan peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Dayan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.