Dayne
Dayne was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,081 among boys’ names; 4,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,770 Americans named Dayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dayne is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dayne?
#5,081 among boys’ names, 2025
Dayne fell from #2,978 in 2015 to #5,081 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 11.1 per million.
154 babies in 2000, the peak
Dayne peaked in 2000, when 154 babies were given it (148 boys, #996 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,081 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,736 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,027 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,886 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,393 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,435 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,913 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,723 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,022 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,843 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,978 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,993 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,340 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,965 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 77 | #1,837 | 40.5 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,657 | 49.0 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,499 | 56.0 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,243 | 68.6 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,372 | 58.3 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,380 | 56.4 |
| 2005 | 94 | #1,514 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,417 | 50.4 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,372 | 49.6 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,176 | 61.3 |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,121 | 64.3 |
| 2000 | 148 | #996 | 75.4 |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,234 | 52.6 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,418 | 41.9 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,437 | 39.8 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,479 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,311 | 42.0 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,370 | 37.3 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,341 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,354 | 34.5 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,242 | 39.6 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,056 | 48.7 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,305 | 35.0 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,108 | 42.3 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,258 | 32.1 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,419 | 26.6 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,258 | 31.4 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,731 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,295 | 28.5 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,940 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,002 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,555 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,118 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,823 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,868 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,063 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,146 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,705 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,939 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,985 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,388 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,755 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,687 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,513 | 15.5 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,616 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,485 | 15.1 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,821 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,705 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 33 | #1,358 | 16.2 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,484 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,835 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,058 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,048 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 30 | #1,424 | 14.1 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,724 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,615 | 11.3 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,917 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,228 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,057 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,024 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,560 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,237 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,657 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,358 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,182 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,434 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,283 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,536 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,780 | 5.6 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,522 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,188 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,641 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,782 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,040 | 6.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,897 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,471 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,044 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,283 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,337 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,460 | 6.3 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,450 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,091 Americans recorded as Dayne, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayne, and how old are they?
3,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 4,091 Americans ever recorded as Dayne. The median Dayne alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,710 people named Dayne (333 women and girls, 3,377 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,706 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 256 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 329 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 418 |
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 Dayne born?
The states with the most babies named Dayne are California, Wisconsin and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 215 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 200 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 144 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 93 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 40 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 34 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Indiana | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayne is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1922 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Dayne 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 341,331 babies since 1880, Dayne is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 861 babies (2.2%), 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 Dayne
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 Dayne and names like it
- Compare Dayne and DannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayne peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayne since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Dayne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.