Dainis

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

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

Dainis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 372(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 16K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 39K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

5,051 people

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 372 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dainis 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 Dainis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#675,0511 in 3725.1KDainis87
GB United Kingdom—≈100 est.≈1 in 634K—Dainis39
US United States—≈76 est.≈1 in 4.4MlistedDainis55
NO Norway—≈46 est.≈1 in 120K180Dainis9
SE Sweden—461 in 222K46Dainis10
LT Lithuania—≈40 est.≈1 in 68KlistedDainis13
EE Estonia—≈31 est.≈1 in 39K23Dainis5
IS Iceland—221 in 16K22——

5,051 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the lt-vlkk-vardai register. 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)

Dainis is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Colombia, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Däïnïs

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia

    Also written Daïnis

  • Russian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Latvian, Estonian

    Also written Дайнис, Dajnis, Даинис, Даініс

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Dainis Stalts, b. 1939Dainis Turlais, b. 1954Dainis Īvāns, b. 1955Dainis Kūla, b. 1959Dainis Deglis, b. 1959Dainis Liepiņš, b. 1962Dainis Ozols, b. 1966Dainis Zīlītis, b. 1969Dainis Kazakevičs, b. 1981Dainis Krištopāns, 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)

InformalSveiki Dainis,Hi Dainis, (English)

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 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Dainis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—5.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—5K#103
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—180#5,190
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—46#14,458
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201929—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202028—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201827—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201727—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201627—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201525—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—23#1,394
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201423—

Reference works 2

  • 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 Dainis mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Dainis a male or female name?
Dainis is a male 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.
In which country does Dainis have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Dainis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dainis.
Where is Dainis most common?
Dainis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 372 people carrying it.
How common is the name Dainis?
In Latvia, the national register counted 5,051 people named Dainis, about 1 in 372 residents.
How common is Dainis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Dainis is the 67th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dainis” — the 67th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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