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Daina vs Daivon

American parents have registered 2,527 Dainas since 1880, against 699 Daivons. Daina is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daina against Daivon, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daina Daivon

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 83 years in which either name was published, Daina for 64 years and Daivon for 19 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Daina Daivon
Total US births 2,527699
Most in one year 8841
Babies in 2025 1010
Estimated living today 2,300690
Median age today 4623
Peak year 19642000
Best rank 1,172nd girls2,330th boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th7,679th
First recorded 19241987
Girls / boys 2,522 / 50 / 699

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 Daivons are over 23. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daina and Daivon.