# Dayna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dayna/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,547 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 87 / 14,460 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 630, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 73 | 2,488 |
| 2012 | 69 | 2,605 |
| 2013 | 56 | 2,984 |
| 2014 | 57 | 2,978 |
| 2015 | 44 | 3,547 |
| 2016 | 47 | 3,389 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,936 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3,019 |
| 2019 | 37 | 3,943 |
| 2020 | 40 | 3,701 |
| 2021 | 29 | 4,647 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,938 |
| 2023 | 28 | 4,785 |
| 2024 | 20 | 5,998 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,604 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 | 3,937 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,161 |
| 1963 | 5 | 4,187 |
| 1965 | 5 | 4,028 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,088 |
| 1973 | 8 | 3,781 |
| 1975 | 5 | 5,660 |
| 1976 | 8 | 4,090 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,283 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,205 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,771 |
| 1987 | 8 | 5,069 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,183 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,123 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,173 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | 2,392 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,521 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2,176 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,757 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.