Dain
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from ME/OFr forms meaning 'worthy'/'haughty' or 'dean'; first attested Robert le Dine 1201 P (Sr)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdeɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dain is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 169K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 44K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 92K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
1,967 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ME/OFr forms meaning 'worthy'/'haughty' or 'dean'; first attested Robert le Dine 1201 P (Sr)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dain 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,967 | 1 in 169K | 1.8K | Dain | 288 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 311K | listed | Dain | 74 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 1 | Dain | 68 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Dain | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 850K | — | Dain | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 98 | 1 in 176K | 92 | Dain | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Dain | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | 1 |
1,967 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dain is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of deyne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, locative plural of dat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, your, thy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, deer
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)
- Yoo Da-inb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Lee Da-inb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1985)
- Lee Da-inb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1992)
- Dain Murub. 1992EEEstonian actor (born 1992)
- Ryu Da-inb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Choi Da-inb. 2004KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born in 2004)
- Rorab. 2008KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer, born 2008
- Ha Da-inKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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)
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 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 821 | #27,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 802 | #31,009 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 763 | #30,570 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Dain mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME/OFr forms meaning 'worthy'/'haughty' or 'dean'; first attested Robert le Dine 1201 P (Sr) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dain?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Dain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,967 people named Dain in 2020, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- Is Dain a male or female name?
- Dain 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 Dain have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Dain, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dain.
- Where is Dain most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dain is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Dain?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dainThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Dain”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.