Dayne — #5079 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dayne

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,863 babies named Dayne between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dayne currently holds the #5079 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 148 babies received it in a single year. Dayne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 206 additional births since 1946.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dayne performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Dayne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 215 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dayne in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dayne in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,863 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.