Daina

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Daina is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latvian folksong.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 53K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 119K
  • PHPhilippines1 in 157K

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

≈11K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
109 ●

8.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 451 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

DainaLatin · Portuguese●49K records
ΔαιναGreek · Greek●0 records

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●

Latvian folksong

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Daina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia4,172△43 rec.1 in 4514.2KDaina11
AR Argentina4,0822.9K rec.—3Daina37
BR Brazil3,998△270 rec.1 in 53K4KDaina56
US United States2,8051.8K rec.1 in 119K2.8KDaina109
PH Philippines1,066536 rec.——Daina25
MX Mexico747489 rec.——Daina46
UY Uruguay357171 rec.——Daina14
CL Chile35355 rec.—1Daina23
PE Peru291221 rec.——Daina21
VE Venezuela236230 rec.——Daina11
CO Colombia22670 rec.——Daina24
IN India214147 rec.—13Daina8

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese49K44%
  • English29K26%
  • Spanish9.4K8%
  • Latvian6K5%
  • Swahili4.6K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese49,18344%
English28,97826%
Spanish9,3698%
Latvian6,0115%
Swahili4,6064%

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◐

Daina is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34K records spelled Daina18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Daïna, Daîna, Dåïñâ, Ḑằina

  • Latvian given name8.0K records spelled Daina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania, Philippines

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Dainà

  • Swahili given name5.4K records spelled Daina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Tanzania, Philippines

    Also written Daïna, Daîna

  • Hindi given name1.7K records spelled Daina4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Daïna

  • a separate given name1.7K records spelled Daina4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Daĭna, Dain̦a, Daïna

  • Russian given name483 records spelled Daina19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Poland, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Дайна, Даина, Dayna, Даіна, Dajna

  • Finnish given name317 records spelled Daina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Daïna

  • Croatian given name293 records spelled Daina9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Latvia, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Dajna, Дайна, Daína

50 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.

Other recorded senses●

Daina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Latviešu klasiskā tautas dziesma

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • Nrsimha (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In German, weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit. daina »Lied«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Hausa, to quit doing, to cease

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02550751001940196019802000202088 · 1964

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Daina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1924–2025
Yearrecords
19246
19386
19425
19435
19467
19475
19485
19497
195015
195117
195214
195329
195419
195528
195626
195722
195839
195949
196045
196149
196246
196360
196488
196544
196646
196747
196840
196949
197051
197164
197245
197346
197438
197538
197666
197750
197858
197967
198060
198146
198251
198366
198447
198547
198659
198741
198835
198946
199036
199138
199243
199325
199429
199532
199623
199733
199824
199915
200023
200133
200218
200320
200429
200515
200622
200721
200823
200911
201014
201113
201216
201310
20149
201510
201610
201714
201810
201910
202114
20227
202311
202412
202510

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1924–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Daina Avotiņa, b. 1926Daina Schweiz, b. 1939Daina Taimiņa, b. 1954Daina Sirmā, b. 1958Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, b. 1965Daina Opolskaite, b. 1979Daina Barone, b. 1980Daina Skadmane, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 67 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Daina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—4.2K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—4.2K#125
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4K#3,195
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.6K#4,151
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,825
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—214#4,558
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—181#9,752
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—150#5,058
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—121#7,475
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202072—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202047#5,825

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 492 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daina?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Daina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Daina have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Daina in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled daina.
Where is Daina most common?
Daina is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 451 people carrying it.
Is Daina a male or female name?
Daina 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 Daina mean?
Recorded meaning: Latvian folksong
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Daina”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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