girl's name

Daina

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 3,323

Scotland

#779

1997 births

Daina is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 10 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 1964, when 88 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 331,565 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1924.

Daina over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1920s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Daina by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1920s 6
1930s 6
1940s 34
1950s 258
1960s 514
1970s 528
1980s 498
1990s 298
2000s 215
2010s 116
2020s (to 2025) 54

How popular is Daina?

In 2025, Daina was given to 10 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Daina is used

Scotland #779 3 in 1997
Ireland #869 4 in 2013
France as Daïna #1,314 25 in 2025
Canada #2,178 8 in 2005
England & Wales #7,326 3 in 2016
United States #9,983 10 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Daina is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Daïna Daïna is Daina written with a diaeresis in France, and the spelling parents there overwhelmingly choose: it ranks #1,314 in France, against #7,290 for Daina. 300

Names that peaked alongside Daina

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Daina also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Daina over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Daina in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Brazilian Portuguese
Daia
Ukrainian
Daiana
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Dayna Daena

Sibling names for Daina

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Daina — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Daina

How popular is the name Daina?

In 2025, Daina was given to 10 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Daina a girl's or a boy's name?

Daina is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Daina most popular?

Daina peaked in 1964, when 88 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Daina a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Daina currently ranks #1,314 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.