Daina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Latvian folksong

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dəinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 53K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 117K
  • LVLatvia1 in 451

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 451 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DainaLatin(measured from records)
ΔαιναGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Latvian folksong

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Daina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈16,000 est.≈1 in 89K—Daina6
LV Latvia4,1721 in 4514.2KDaina13
BR Brazil3,9981 in 53K4KDaina52
US United States2,8521 in 117K2.8KDaina119
PH Philippines≈1,400 est.≈1 in 78K—Daina27
SE Sweden1211 in 84K121—2
UY Uruguay≈62 est.≈1 in 55K—Daina14

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Daina is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Daïna, Ḑằina, Dåïñâ, Daîna

  • Latvian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania, Philippines

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Dainà

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Tanzania, Latvia

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Daïna, Daîna

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Latvia, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Daïna

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Daïna, Dain̦a, Daĭna

  • Russian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Дайна, Даина, Dayna, Даіна, Dajna

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Daïna

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Latvia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Dajna, Дайна, Daína

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Daina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Latviešu klasiskā tautas dziesma

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • Nrsimha (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In German, weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit. daina »Lied«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Hausa, to quit doing, to cease

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Daina Avotiņa, b. 1926Daina Schweiz, b. 1939Daina Taimiņa, b. 1954Daina Sirmā, b. 1958Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, b. 1965Daina Opolskaite, b. 1979Daina Barone, b. 1980Daina Skadmane, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Daina,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 68 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Daina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—4.2K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—4.2K#125
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4K#3,195
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.6K#4,151
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,825
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—121#7,475
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202072—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202047#5,825
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202036—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#3,195
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202510—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Daina mean, and where does it come from?
Latvian folksong Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Daina a male or female name?
Daina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Daina?
A machine transcription gives /dəinə/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Daina?
In the etymology graph, Dainis is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Daina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Daina in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daina.
Where is Daina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daina is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 451 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Daina?
In Latvia, the national register counted 4,172 people named Daina, about 1 in 451 residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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