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Dayana vs Dayrin

American parents have registered 15,603 Dayanas since 1880, against 218 Dayrins. Dayana is still ahead, with 392 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dayana Dayrin

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 2004, when Dayana had 434 and Dayrin had 28.

Side by side

  Dayana Dayrin
Total US births 15,603218
Most in one year 77728
Babies in 2025 3928
Estimated living today 15,000220
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20082004
Best rank 412th girls4,707th girls
Rank in 2025 716th10,917th
First recorded 19702003
Girls / boys 15,598 / 5218 / 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 Dayrins alive today are over 16; half the Dayanas are over 14. That is 2 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.

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