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Daiana vs Daisey

American parents have registered 2,520 Daiseys since 1880, against 1,161 Daianas. But in 2025 it was Daiana that was commoner, 23 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daiana against Daisey, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daiana Daisey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Daisey for 125 years and Daiana for 19 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Daiana Daisey
Total US births 1,1612,520
Most in one year 8155
Babies in 2025 2320
Estimated living today 1,1001,600
Median age today 1428
Peak year 20122000
Best rank 2,315th girls2,672nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th5,917th
First recorded 19671880
Girls / boys 1,161 / 02,520 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Daiseys alive today are over 28; half the Daianas are over 14. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Daiana Daisey
England and Wales 126214
Ireland 36

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daiana and Daisey.