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Dayana vs Daylin

American parents have registered 15,603 Dayanas since 1880, against 3,824 Daylins. Dayana is still ahead, with 392 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dayana Daylin

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 1977, when Dayana had 11 and Daylin had 6.

Side by side

  Dayana Daylin
Total US births 15,6033,824
Most in one year 777187
Babies in 2025 392123
Estimated living today 15,0003,800
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20082020
Best rank 412th girls1,518th girls
Rank in 2025 716th2,256th
First recorded 19701977
Girls / boys 15,598 / 51,979 / 1,845

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.

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