Dayan
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
- Given to boys 72.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 41 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 542since 1968
Dayan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | — | #3,001 | 41 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,850 | 20 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,362 | 23 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,340 | 17 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,060 | 14 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #5,466 | 11 |
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| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five boys were named Dayan! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dayan is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Dayan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dayan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 847 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #3,848)
- 692 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #3,848)
- 1,210 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
56 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2024 at #3,001 (41 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 42,022
- Highest: 1 in 42,022 boys born in 2024 were named Dayan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 29.5% of all boys named Dayan (160) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2012
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #4,036 |
| 1970s | 29 | #3,963 (1971) | #5,029 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,262 (1981) | #6,262 |
| 1990s | 40 | #5,466 (1998) | #6,821 |
| 2000s | 143 | #4,005 (2004) | #5,789 |
| 2010s | 154 | #4,533 (2012) | #6,034 |
| 2020s | 160 | #3,001 (2024) | #4,101 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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