Daya

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Daya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Daya: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #918, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#918highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2000	#3912
2001	#2783
2002	#2540
2003	#2191
2004	#1535
2005	#1934
2006	#2509
2007	#1656
2008	#1344
2009	#1752
2010	#1429
2011	#1295
2012	#1342
2013	#1291
2014	#1272
2015	#1139
2016	#1278
2017	#1105
2018	#972
2019	#1017
2020	#1449
2021	#1286
2022	#1416
2023	#1087
2024	#918

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 15 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #918 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #918 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Daya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 26 ranked years and 526 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 1997.

Daya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Daya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2337 (1997)	#2337 (1997)	#2921 (2024)	15 of 28	73 (1997–2024)	8 (2016)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#918 (2024)	#918 (2024)	26 of 27	526 (1998–2024)	39 (2024)

Daya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Daya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	106	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	279	10 of 10	28
2020s	138	5 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Daya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #918 in England and Wales in 2024.

Daya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#918	39	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1087	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1416	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1286	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1017	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#972	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1344	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #918, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dax · #535, 24y
Daxton · #1391, 12y
Dayan · #2018, 13y
Dayana · #1325, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cari · #919, 29y
Eboni · #920, 24y
Ellia · #920, 28y
Lani · #916, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Inayat · #918, 20y
Cari · #919, 29y
Eboni · #920, 24y
Ellia · #920, 28y

Daya was ranked #918 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Daya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Daya without appearing here.

Daya moved ahead of

Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1535 and #4598.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2509 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #4564.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3895 and #2248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2556 and #4810.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Daya

Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3332 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #4805 and #569.
Henrik Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2337 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #2470.
Mathias Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2337 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #2470.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1017 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1449 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Daya

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Daya

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Daya went from #3848 to #918 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #918 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Daya

Daya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Daya across 2 official records

Daya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Daya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Daya

Daya and the names beside it

Daya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Daya

Moved the opposite way to Daya

Moved the same way as Daya

Daya at a glance

Daya across 2 official records

Daya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Daya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Daya

Daya and the names beside it

Daya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Daya

Moved the opposite way to Daya

Moved the same way as Daya