girls:
14.4k births since 1937
#1283 (78th percentile)
boys:
87 births since 1953
#4499 (2nd percentile)
overall:
14.5k births since 1937
#2181 (72nd percentile)
The name Dayna is the #2,181 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,506 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 71.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,283 (77.6% percentile) for all time with 14,419 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #4,499 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 1953.
Dayna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for girls and 1953 for boys). Birth data for Dayna is available in 85 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (85 years for girls and 15 years for boys). 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.
The name Dayna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dayna reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 41.1% percentile (ranked #473) with 192 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 197 births per million (ranked 39.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Dayna ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dayna reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dayna".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dayna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dayna is pronounced as DAY-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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