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Dayna vs Dayrin

American parents have registered 14,547 Daynas since 1880, against 218 Dayrins. Dayna is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dayna against Dayrin, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dayna 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

Dayna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1937 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Dayna had 20 and Dayrin had 15.

Side by side

  Dayna Dayrin
Total US births 14,547218
Most in one year 36828
Babies in 2025 178
Estimated living today 14,000220
Median age today 4116
Peak year 19882004
Best rank 570th girls4,707th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th10,917th
First recorded 19372003
Girls / boys 14,460 / 87218 / 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 Daynas alive today are over 41; half the Dayrins are over 16. That is 25 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: Dayna and Dayrin.