Daimon vs Daina
American parents have registered 2,527 Dainas since 1880, against 802 Daimons. But in 2025 it was Daimon that was commoner, 18 babies to 10.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Daimon Daina
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
Of the 84 years in which either name was published, Daina for 68 years and Daimon for 16 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Daimon | Daina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 802 | 2,527 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 88 |
| Babies in 2025 | 18 | 10 |
| Estimated living today | 780 | 2,300 |
| Median age today | 24 | 46 |
| Peak year | 2003 | 1964 |
| Best rank | 2,922nd boys | 1,172nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,208th | 9,457th |
| First recorded | 1968 | 1924 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 802 | 2,522 / 5 |
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 Dainas alive today are over 46; half the Daimons are over 24. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Daimon | Daina |
|---|---|---|
| France | 10 | 595 Daïna |
| England and Wales | 4 | 91 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daimon and Daina.