Dayra
Dayra was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,092 among girls’ names; 1,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Dayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayra?
#4,092 among girls’ names, 2025
Dayra fell from #3,716 in 2015 to #4,092 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 21.8 per million.
114 babies in 2007, the peak
Dayra peaked in 2007, when 114 girls were given it, #1,849 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,092 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,592 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,724 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,233 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,947 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,983 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,029 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,049 | 55.8 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,722 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,195 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,716 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,664 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,589 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,867 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,734 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,032 | 55.1 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,202 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,386 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,849 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,946 | 54.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,735 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,307 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,371 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,500 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,840 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,703 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,368 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,206 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,206 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,795 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,148 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,848 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,788 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,915 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,865 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,976 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,176 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,055 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,795 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,762 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayra, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,365 Americans ever recorded as Dayra. The median Dayra alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,289 people named Dayra (1,283 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 70 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 608 |
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 Dayra born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,555 | 1.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,172 | 0.2× |
Where Dayra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayra is most over-represented in Texas: since 1980 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 Dayra 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 30,516 babies since 1880, Dayra is the third most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 538 babies (6.5%), the fourth 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 Dayra
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 Dayra and names like it
- Compare Dayra and DaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayra peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayra since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Dayra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.