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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#119 · 1 in 455
- Washington#390 · 1 in 2,549
- New Jersey#403 · 1 in 2,591
- Pennsylvania#449 · 1 in 3,883
- Utah#450 · 1 in 3,033
Best ever in a state: #74 in Hawaii, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #119 | 10 | 1 in 455 |
| Washington | #390 | 9 | 1 in 2,549 |
| New Jersey | #403 | 14 | 1 in 2,591 |
| Pennsylvania | #449 | 17 | 1 in 3,883 |
| Utah | #450 | 5 | 1 in 3,033 |
| Louisiana | #476 | 9 | 1 in 3,057 |
| Virginia | #489 | 7 | 1 in 3,977 |
| Minnesota | #506 | 5 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Georgia | #602 | 7 | 1 in 4,607 |
| California | #637 | 32 | 1 in 4,792 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| Michigan | #645 | 9 | 1 in 6,394 |
| Ohio | #648 | 10 | 1 in 6,895 |
| Florida | #650 | 9 | 1 in 4,891 |
| Illinois | #677 | 12 | 1 in 5,909 |
| New York | #678 | 18 | 1 in 5,463 |
| Texas | #751 | 17 | 1 in 6,082 |
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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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,252 of them was named Dayna, which outranked 94.3% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Dayna, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).