girls:
839 births since 1964
#4877 (15th percentile)
overall:
839 births since 1964
#6900 (11th percentile)
The name Daya is the #6,900 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 839 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,877 (14.7% percentile) for all time with 839 births since 1964.
Daya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (first recorded for girls in 1964). Birth data for Daya is available in 41 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Daya reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #914) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Daya ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 85.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Daya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.4% confident that Daya is pronounced as DAY-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAI-uh, at 29.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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