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Dayana vs Daylen

American parents have registered 15,603 Dayanas since 1880, against 4,330 Daylens. Dayana is still ahead, with 392 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dayana against Daylen, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dayana Daylen

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

Dayana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Dayana had 179 and Daylen had 74.

Side by side

  Dayana Daylen
Total US births 15,6034,330
Most in one year 777228
Babies in 2025 392124
Estimated living today 15,0004,300
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20082010
Best rank 412th girls980th boys
Rank in 2025 716th1,529th
First recorded 19701979
Girls / boys 15,598 / 5344 / 3,986

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.

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 Dayana Daylen
England and Wales 16618

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: Dayana and Daylen.