Dayani
Dayani was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,845 among girls’ names; 753 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayani?
#3,845 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayani fell from #3,098 in 2015 to #3,845 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 23.6 per million.
70 babies in 2008, the peak
Dayani peaked in 2008, when 70 girls were given it, #2,640 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,845 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,710 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,303 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,057 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,436 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,520 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,195 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,200 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,015 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,447 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,098 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,121 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,789 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,408 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,098 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,280 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,395 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,640 | 37.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,406 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,233 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,734 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,487 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,109 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,418 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,264 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,322 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,585 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,709 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayani, and how old are they?
An estimated 747 Americans named Dayani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Dayani (691 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 571 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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 50,601 babies since 1880, Dayani is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 1,034 babies (3.7%), the fifth 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 Dayani
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 Dayani and names like it
- Compare Dayani and DayanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayani peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayani since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dayani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dayani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.