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Dayanara vs Daysia

American parents have registered 6,568 Dayanaras since 1880, against 720 Daysias. Dayanara is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dayanara Daysia

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 45 years in which either name was published, Dayanara for 43 years and Daysia for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dayanara Daysia
Total US births 6,568720
Most in one year 90950
Babies in 2025 35under 5
Estimated living today 6,500710
Median age today 1923
Peak year 20052001
Best rank 345th girls2,881st girls
Rank in 2025 4,067thunranked
First recorded 19741992
Girls / boys 6,568 / 0720 / 0

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 Daysias alive today are over 23; half the Dayanaras are over 19. 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 Daysia.