Given name & surname
Daina
“latvian folk song”
Daina is a feminine given name. It is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Daina goes back to a word meaning “latvian folk song.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Daina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,527
- 5 boys · 2,522 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 88 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,597 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +23%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,597 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 88 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,852 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Daina’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Daina has a masculine form in DAINIS. Daina has a related form in Dana. In Greek usage, Daina as a surname is a transliteration of Δάινα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Daina
- Daina TaimiņaAmerican mathematician of Latvian origin (born 1954)
- Daina GudzinevičiūtėLithuanian sport shooterborn 1965
- Daina SkadmaneLatvian painter (1990-2013)
- Daina OpolskaitėLithuanian writer (born 1979)
- Daina ŠveicaLatvian rower (born 1939)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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