Dayna

given name · English · Latin script

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

Dayna is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Día brillante.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 15K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 21K
  • USUnited States1 in 25K

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

≈16K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
369 ●

128K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 25K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

DaynaLatin · English●134K records
ดายนะThai · Thai●3 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●

Día brillante

Sources 1

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Where in the world●

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

Where Dayna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—13,502107K rec.1 in 25K14KDayna369
AU Australia—5,5204.7K rec.—3Dayna117
CA Canada—5,4033.9K rec.—3Dayna129
GB United Kingdom—4,7204.1K rec.—4Dayna95
BR Brazil—1,094△1 rec.1 in 194K1.1KDayna2
PH Philippines—9331.3K rec.——Dayna22
FR France—7000 rec.1 in 97K700—1
NZ New Zealand#531525307 rec.—10Dayna56
IT Italy—427428 rec.—listedDayna9
DE Germany—389375 rec.—1Dayna35
IE Ireland#719241227 rec.——Dayna26
CR Costa Rica—1350 rec.1 in 38K135—1

Roughly 14K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 25K). 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●

  • English134K72%
  • Portuguese15K8%
  • Spanish11K6%
  • 6.2K3%
  • French3.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English133,96372%
Portuguese15,0328%
Spanish10,7136%
6,1623%
French3,4842%

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◐

Dayna is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name28K records spelled Dayna7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Dayná, Dáyná, Dáyna, Ďäyna, Dayña

  • French given name3.8K records spelled Dayna5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dâÿna, Daynà, Dâyñà

  • Arabic given name1.2K records spelled Dayna14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Palestine, Canada

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written Dãÿnã, Dâÿnã, Dãýnã, Dãÿnâ, Däÿñã

  • Russian given name507 records spelled Dayna19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Poland, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Дайна, Даина, Daina, Даіна, Dajna

48 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.

Over time●

010020030040019401960198020002020361 · 1988

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Dayna in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1937–2025
Yearrecords
19377
19386
19407
194211
19439
194414
194531
194620
194731
194832
194937
195044
195158
195258
195340
195456
1955123
1956124
1957132
1958157
1959164
1960162
1961175
1962212
1963260
1964273
1965241
1966213
1967255
1968255
1969277
1970287
1971285
1972285
1973218
1974276
1975216
1976226
1977284
1978245
1979340
1980340
1981331
1982356
1983294
1984321
1985337
1986260
1987360
1988361
1989342
1990351
1991333
1992278
1993259
1994261
1995267
1996224
1997250
1998198
1999220
2000220
2001197
2002200
2003188
2004174
2005169
2006147
2007139
2008125
200995
201081
201173
201269
201356
201457
201544
201647
201738
201854
201937
202040
202129
202227
202328
202420
202517

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 87 years between 1937–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Dayna Ash, b. 1901Dayna Smith, b. 1962Dayna Cussler, b. 1964Dayna Devon, b. 1970Dayna Winston, b. 1970Dayna Manning, b. 1978Danya Rogen, b. 1979Dayna Edwards, b. 1985Dayna Cox, b. 1993

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 50 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Dayna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202014K#2,012
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#7,764
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—867#5,046
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—848#10,213
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024700#572
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020149#2,012
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—135#1,808
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—128#4,767
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—115#7,432
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)1992102—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199693—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 504 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dayna?
We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Dayna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Dayna have the most bearers?
We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Dayna in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dayna.
How common is Dayna compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Dayna is the 531st most common given name of 22,472 given names recorded there.
Is Dayna a male or female name?
Dayna 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 Dayna mean?
Recorded meaning: Día brillante
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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, “Dayna” — the 531st most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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