Dayne
Dayne is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 998th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000148 births
- Best rank
- #998in 2000
- Since 1922
- 4,069people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,863 boys have been named Dayne in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 148 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 30%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 206 girls have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dayne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 30 | |
| 1930s | 34 | |
| 1940s | 75 | |
| 1950s | 187 | |
| 1960s | 239 | |
| 1970s | 222 | |
| 1980s | 476 | |
| 1990s | 797 | |
| 2000s | 1,172 | |
| 2010s | 511 | |
| 2020s | 120 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Dayne was the 998th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Dayne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gustavopeak 2000
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Eduardopeak 2001
- Colinpeak 2004
- Donavanpeak 2002
- Luispeak 2007
- Javanpeak 2004
- Osvaldopeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.