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Dayne vs Dayquan

American parents have registered 4,091 Daynes since 1880, against 739 Dayquans. Dayne is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dayne against Dayquan, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dayne Dayquan

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

Dayne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1922 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Dayne had 72 and Dayquan had 66.

Side by side

  Dayne Dayquan
Total US births 4,091739
Most in one year 15466
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 3,800720
Median age today 2627
Peak year 20001994
Best rank 998th boys1,454th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19221988
Girls / boys 206 / 3,8850 / 739

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.

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: Dayne and Dayquan.