Dayna
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · Last seen for boys in 1995 at #8,868
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 356 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,460since 1937
Dayna over time
Rank among girls' names. Dayna has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,341 | 81 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,602 | 139 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,495 | 147 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,307 | 169 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,249 | 174 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 188 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,063 | 200 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,076 | 197 | — | |
| 2000 | #962 | 220 | — | |
| 1999 | #946 | 220 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,007 | 198 | — | |
| 1997 | #828 | 250 | — | |
| 1996 | #879 | 224 | — | |
| 1995 | #758 | 267 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #784 | 261 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #789 | 259 | — | |
| 1992 | #753 | 278 | — | |
| 1991 | #655 | 333 | — | |
| 1990 | #638 | 351 | — | |
| 1989 | #621 | 342 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #570 | 361 | — | |
| 1987 | #557 | 360 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #696 | 260 | — | |
| 1985 | #577 | 337 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #572 | 321 | — | |
| 1983 | #603 | 294 | — | |
| 1982 | #543 | 356 | — | |
| 1981 | #560 | 331 | — | |
| 1980 | #547 | 340 | — | |
| 1979 | #548 | 340 | — | |
| 1978 | #655 | 245 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #599 | 284 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #675 | 226 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #692 | 216 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #574 | 276 | — | |
| 1973 | #687 | 218 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #576 | 285 | — | |
| 1971 | #601 | 285 | — | |
| 1970 | #605 | 287 | — | |
| 1969 | #596 | 277 | — | |
| 1968 | #603 | 255 | — | |
| 1967 | #596 | 255 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #662 | 213 | — | |
| 1965 | #629 | 241 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #606 | 273 | — | |
| 1963 | #626 | 260 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #709 | 212 | — | |
| 1961 | #792 | 175 | — | |
| 1960 | #817 | 162 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #796 | 164 | — | |
| 1958 | #801 | 157 | — | |
| 1957 | #887 | 132 | — | |
| 1956 | #897 | 124 | — | |
| 1955 | #876 | 123 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 56 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,549 | 40 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #1,250 | 58 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,215 | 58 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,375 | 44 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,512 | 37 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,648 | 32 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,722 | 31 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,094 | 20 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,450 | 31 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
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| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dayna! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dayna is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#218 · 1 in 742
- Kansas#335 · 1 in 2,054
- Pennsylvania#343 · 1 in 2,487
- Minnesota#357 · 1 in 3,008
- Louisiana#361 · 1 in 2,040
Best ever in a state: #74 in Hawaii, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #218 | 6 | 1 in 742 |
| Kansas | #335 | 6 | 1 in 2,054 |
| Pennsylvania | #343 | 29 | 1 in 2,487 |
| Minnesota | #357 | 8 | 1 in 3,008 |
| Louisiana | #361 | 13 | 1 in 2,040 |
| Oklahoma | #374 | 7 | 1 in 2,329 |
| Connecticut | #379 | 6 | 1 in 2,637 |
| Arkansas | #396 | 5 | 1 in 2,617 |
| Washington | #408 | 7 | 1 in 2,741 |
| Missouri | #453 | 8 | 1 in 3,910 |
| New Jersey | #458 | 12 | 1 in 3,395 |
| Wisconsin | #502 | 5 | 1 in 5,501 |
| Tennessee | #514 | 6 | 1 in 4,718 |
| California | #515 | 39 | 1 in 3,515 |
| Florida | #522 | 11 | 1 in 4,044 |
| Alabama | #547 | 5 | 1 in 4,829 |
| Texas | #566 | 23 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Michigan | #600 | 10 | 1 in 6,189 |
| New York | #729 | 15 | 1 in 7,389 |
| Illinois | #748 | 10 | 1 in 7,460 |
| Ohio | #898 | 6 | 1 in 12,408 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dayna
- 584 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #6,546)
- 2,870 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #6,546)
- 3,013 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 457 spots in 1955 (#1,333 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1998 (#828 → #1,007)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1982 at #543 (356 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1955–1997
- Highest: 1 in 4,721 girls born in 1979 were named Dayna (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #543 in 1982, was only 1 in 4,757 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all girls named Dayna (3,302) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 13 | #3,434 (1937) | #3,641 |
| 1940s | 192 | #1,450 (1945) | #2,266 |
| 1950s | 956 | #796 (1959) | #1,098 |
| 1960s | 2,323 | #596 (1969) | #664 |
| 1970s | 2,662 | #548 (1979) | #621 |
| 1980s | 3,302 | #543 (1982) | #585 |
| 1990s | 2,641 | #638 (1990) | #804 |
| 2000s | 1,654 | #962 (2000) | #1,378 |
| 2010s | 556 | #2,341 (2010) | #3,112 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,676 (2020) | #5,074 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dayna in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 5,338 of them was named Dayna, which outranked 94.0% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).