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Dayne vs Dayron

American parents have registered 4,091 Daynes since 1880, against 874 Dayrons. But in 2025 it was Dayron that was commoner, 46 babies to 19.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dayne Dayron

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 95 years in which either name was published, Dayne for 89 years and Dayron for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dayne Dayron
Total US births 4,091874
Most in one year 15460
Babies in 2025 1946
Estimated living today 3,800860
Median age today 2612
Peak year 20002024
Best rank 998th boys2,345th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th2,765th
First recorded 19221976
Girls / boys 206 / 3,8850 / 874

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 Daynes alive today are over 26; half the Dayrons are over 12. That is 14 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Dayne Dayron
France 5410

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: Dayne and Dayron.