Dayanna
Dayanna was given to 111 girls in 2025, #1,811 among girls’ names; 3,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,880 Americans named Dayanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayanna?
#1,811 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayanna fell from #1,405 in 2015 to #1,811 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 93.0 to 69.1 per million.
199 babies in 2009, the peak
Dayanna peaked in 2009, when 199 girls were given it, #1,244 among girls’ names. The 111 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,811 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,798 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,827 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,995 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,671 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,550 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 152 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 166 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,421 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 199 | #1,244 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,480 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,494 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,745 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,914 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 121 | #1,607 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 109 | #1,734 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,745 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,967 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,015 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,574 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,373 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,289 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,305 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,433 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,891 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,225 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,087 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,096 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,793 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayanna, and how old are they?
3,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,916 Americans ever recorded as Dayanna. The median Dayanna alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,598 people named Dayanna (2,594 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,760 |
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 Dayanna born?
The states with the most babies named Dayanna are Texas, California and Florida, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,163 | 1.8× |
| California | 19 | #1,287 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,954 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #943 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,418 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,171 | 0.6× |
Where Dayanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayanna is most over-represented in Texas: since 1984 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 Dayanna 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 62,253 babies since 1880, Dayanna is the fourth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 1,375 babies (8.1%), the third 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 Dayanna
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 Dayanna and names like it
- Compare Dayanna and DannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayanna peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dayanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.