Daiana
Feminine · “Divine”
Daiana is Diana written so that a Spanish or Romanian reader arrives at the right sound. The name underneath is Roman and old: Diana was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and childbirth, and her name is built on the word for daylight.
How old is the name Daiana?
Daiana first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Daiana alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Daiana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daiana most popular?
Daiana peaked in 2012, reaching #2315 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 3,095 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Diana to Daiana
The story of Daiana
Diana was identified with the Greek Artemis and worshipped at Nemi and on the Aventine; her temple at Ephesus was one of the wonders of the ancient world. The name survived through the Renaissance as a literary and aristocratic one and became widely popular in the twentieth century, in Britain especially after 1981. Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian all use Diana, and the Daiana respelling appears in Latin America and Romania alike so that readers arrive at dye-AH-na rather than dee-AH-na. American records show Daiana from the 1990s in Hispanic families, with a peak in 2012.
Meaning
Divine, heavenly, of the daylight
From Latin Diana, generally connected to the root div or dius, meaning divine or of the daylight sky — the same element behind deus and dies. The reading is settled. Daiana is a Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian phonetic respelling that separates the i into a diphthong, which is how those languages read the sequence.
How the name formed
- Diana
- Daiana
Related forms: Diana · Daiana · Diana · Diana · Diana
Pronouncing Daiana
dye-AH-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the ai a diphthong. Spanish Diana would be dee-AH-na, which is precisely the reading the respelling exists to prevent.
Nicknames for Daiana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 201281 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2315reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%23 in 2025, from 23
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daiana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Diana in Spanish — related form
- Daiana in Romanian — same name
- Diana in Portuguese — related form
- Diana in Italian — related form
- Diana in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Daianas among us
people named Daiana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Daiana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daiana
- #5410
- Daiana on the 2025 chart
- #504
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daiana went to 23 girls in 2025, but Dayana and Dayanna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 526, which makes it the 504th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,906 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,056 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Daiana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Manuella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daiana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Manuella climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Manuella's path sketches the road Daiana is walking now.
Daiana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Daiana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daiana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and connects to a major Roman deity.
- Ana is available as one of the world's most established short forms.
- The spelling delivers the intended sound in Spanish.
- Diana is the standard spelling everywhere and will be written for it.
- English readers will not guess the diphthong from the spelling.
- Daiana, Dayana, Deyana and Diana are four spellings in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daianas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Daiana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daiana?
- Daiana is one of 3 recorded spellings. Dayana is the more common one — 392 births in 2025 against 23 for Daiana.
- How popular is the name Daiana in 2025?
- Daiana ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daiana?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Daiana — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daiana with classmates?
- Daiana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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