Dayana
Dayana was given to 392 girls in 2025, #716 among girls’ names; 15,603 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Dayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Dayana dropped 219 places in 2025, the #8 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dayana mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Dayana is “a female given name”
From the pronunciation of English Diana, maybe because of the influence of Paul Anka’s song with the same name.
/daˈʝana/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dayana?
#716 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayana fell from #582 in 2015 to #716 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.29 to 0.24 per 1,000.
777 babies in 2008, the peak
Dayana peaked in 2008, when 777 girls were given it, #412 among girls’ names. The 392 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 392 | #716 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 619 | #497 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 629 | #488 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 563 | #546 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 489 | #610 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 476 | #612 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 524 | #582 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 622 | #499 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 544 | #560 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 497 | #606 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 522 | #582 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 490 | #601 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 543 | #547 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 701 | #447 | 0.40 |
| 2011 | 692 | #446 | 0.39 |
| 2010 | 624 | #484 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 760 | #421 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 777 | #412 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 576 | #541 | 0.30 |
| 2006 | 529 | #557 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 513 | #558 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 434 | #627 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 392 | #674 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 316 | #764 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 283 | #820 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 250 | #882 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 179 | #1,109 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,165 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 204 | #966 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,286 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,264 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 276 | #754 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 124 | #1,339 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,081 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,831 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,892 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,653 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,741 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,102 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,164 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,922 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,159 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,779 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,595 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,167 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,402 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,268 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayana has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayana, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,603 Americans ever recorded as Dayana. The median Dayana alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 13,375 people named Dayana (13,328 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,870 |
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 Dayana born?
The states with the most babies named Dayana are California, Texas and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 54 | #596 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 54 | #585 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 32 | #557 | 1.1× |
| New York | 20 | #800 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #567 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #584 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 16 | #492 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 14 | #680 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #572 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 11 | #596 | 0.7× |
Where Dayana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayana is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Dayana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,632 babies since 1880, Dayana is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 392 of their 1,619 babies (24%), 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 Dayana
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 Dayana and names like it
- Compare Dayana and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayana peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayana since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Dayana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.