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Dayanara vs Daytona

American parents have registered 6,568 Dayanaras since 1880, against 984 Daytonas. Dayanara is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dayanara Daytona

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 48 years in which either name was published, Dayanara for 43 years and Daytona for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Dayanara Daytona
Total US births 6,568984
Most in one year 90960
Babies in 2025 3516
Estimated living today 6,500970
Median age today 1920
Peak year 20052006
Best rank 345th girls3,469th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th11,932nd
First recorded 19741985
Girls / boys 6,568 / 0731 / 253

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dayanara Daytona
France 255

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: Dayanara and Daytona.