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Dayanara vs Daymian

American parents have registered 6,568 Dayanaras since 1880, against 671 Daymians. Dayanara is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dayanara against Daymian, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dayanara Daymian

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

Dayanara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Dayanara had 6 and Daymian had 5.

Side by side

  Dayanara Daymian
Total US births 6,568671
Most in one year 90945
Babies in 2025 3514
Estimated living today 6,500660
Median age today 1915
Peak year 20052009
Best rank 345th girls2,702nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,067th6,143rd
First recorded 19741992
Girls / boys 6,568 / 00 / 671

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 Dayanaras alive today are over 19; half the Daymians are over 15. That is 4 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: Dayanara and Daymian.