Dayna
Dayna was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,603 among girls’ names; 14,547 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,600 Americans named Dayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 31 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dayna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dayna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dayna?
#6,603 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayna fell from #3,547 in 2015 to #6,603 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 10.6 per million.
368 babies in 1987, the peak
Dayna peaked in 1987, when 368 babies were given it (360 girls, #558 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,603 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,995 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,782 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,935 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,643 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,700 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,942 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,018 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,389 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,547 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,976 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,983 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,605 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,487 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,347 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,123 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,765 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,609 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,497 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,309 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 174 | #1,249 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,149 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 200 | #1,063 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,077 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 220 | #962 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 220 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 198 | #1,008 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 250 | #828 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 224 | #879 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 267 | #758 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 261 | #783 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 259 | #789 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 278 | #752 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 333 | #655 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 351 | #639 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 342 | #620 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 361 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 360 | #558 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 260 | #697 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 337 | #577 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 321 | #574 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 294 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 356 | #543 | 0.21 |
| 1981 | 331 | #561 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 340 | #547 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 340 | #548 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 245 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 284 | #600 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 226 | #675 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 216 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 276 | #575 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 218 | #687 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 285 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 285 | #601 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 287 | #605 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 277 | #596 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 255 | #603 | 0.16 |
| 1967 | 255 | #596 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 213 | #662 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 241 | #630 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 273 | #606 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 260 | #626 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 212 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 175 | #792 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 162 | #818 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 164 | #797 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 157 | #801 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 132 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 124 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 123 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 58 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 58 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,514 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,102 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,933 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayna has been given almost only to girls: 87 boys in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayna, and how old are they?
13,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 14,547 Americans ever recorded as Dayna. The median Dayna alive today is 42 years old; half are between 31 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 13,651 people named Dayna (13,502 women and girls, 149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 491 |
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 Dayna born?
The states with the most babies named Dayna are California, New York and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,824 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,154 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 1,135 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 933 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 698 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 465 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 459 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 429 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 410 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 292 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Dayna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayna is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1937 it was given 4.3 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 Dayna 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 333,844 babies since 1880, Dayna is the fourth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 2,268 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Dayna
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 Dayna and names like it
- Compare Dayna and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDayna peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayna since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Dayna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dayna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.