Daïna

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Daïna is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 53K
  • AUAustralia1 in 58K
  • USUnited States1 in 119K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K

across 11 countries

Sources
226

25K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 451

Latvia

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Daina in US United States, LV Latvia, BR Brazil and 16 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Derivation of Daïna: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Daïna
  1. Proto-Balto-Slavic*dainācompare Lithuanian daina
  2. Proto-Balto-Slavic root*deî-“to singto sing, dance
  3. Proto-Indo-European*deyh₁-move swiftly

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Cf. also Romanian doină.

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Daïna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia4,172116 rec.1 in 4514.2KDaina23
BR Brazil3,9981 rec.1 in 53K4KDaina3
US United States2,80519K rec.1 in 119K2.8KDaina226
AU Australia1,9831.7K rec.3Daina96
GB United Kingdom983899 rec.3Daina55
CA Canada777624 rec.Daina73
PH Philippines497348 rec.Daina18
DE Germany412378 rec.Daina56
NO Norway2186 rec.214Daina5
ES Spain18135 rec.1 in 276K181Daina13
NG Nigeria156274 rec.Daina13
IN India143104 rec.13Daina25

Roughly 4.2K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 451). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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Languages

  • French27374%
  • English5114%
  • Swahili113%
  • Spanish103%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French27374%
English5114%
Swahili113%
Spanish103%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Daïna is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name21 records spelled Daïna35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian

    Also written Daina, Daína, Daîna, Dáina, Dainá

  • Swahili given name11 records spelled Daïna5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Tanzania, Philippines

    Also written Daina, Daîna

  • Italian given name4 records spelled Daïna3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, San Marino, Philippines

    Also written Daina, Daína

  • a separate given name2 records spelled Daïna4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Latvia

    Also written Daina, Daĭna, Dain̦a

  • Hindi given name2 records spelled Daïna4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Daina

  • Romanian given name2 records spelled Daïna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania

    Also written Daina

  • Finnish given name1 records spelled Daïna3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Daina

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daïna?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Daïna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Daïna have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Daïna in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled daina.
Where is Daïna most common?
Daïna is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 451 people carrying it.
Is Daïna a male or female name?
Daïna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Daïna mean?
Recorded meaning: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I…
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daïna”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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