Daines

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Daines is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; Essex and Middx. See Dains . Dains (Wedmore, Somerset); Isaac Dainten, 1767 in IGI (Winsley, Wilts).

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 348K
  • TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 9K

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)

957 people, 2010

Sources
236 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Turks & Caicos Islands, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; Essex and Middx. See Dains . Dains (Wedmore, Somerset); Isaac Dainten, 1767 in IGI (Winsley, Wilts).

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daines 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 Daines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9571 in 348K1.2KDaines236
GB United Kingdom—≈750 est.≈1 in 87K—Daines120
AU Australia—≈270 est.≈1 in 94K—Daines66
CA Canada—≈140 est.≈1 in 266K—Daines66
BR Brazil—1161 in 1.8M116Daines16
CU Cuba—≈83 est.≈1 in 133K—Daines3
NZ New Zealand—≈37 est.≈1 in 134K—Daines15
TC Turks & Caicos Islands#482≈6 est.≈1 in 9K—Daines1

957 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Daines is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Da-Ines

41 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)

Daines is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, plural of daina

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

  • In cim, neuter of dain

    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)

16001700180019002000William Daines, b. 1656Percy Daines, b. 1902Robert H. Daines, b. 1905Margaret Tebbit, b. 1934Barry Daines, b. 1951Richard F. Daines, b. 1951Steve Daines, b. 1962Michael O. Daines, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Ms Daines,
InformalHi Daines,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Daines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,081
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010957#25,751
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000910#25,503
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—116#56,623
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Daines mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; Essex and Middx. See Dains . Dains (Wedmore, Somerset); Isaac Dainten, 1767 in IGI (Winsley, Wilts). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Daines?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdeɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Daines have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 957 people named Daines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daines.
How common is the name Daines?
In the United States, the national register counted 957 people named Daines in 2010, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
How common is Daines compared with other names?
In Turks & Caicos Islands, Daines is the 482nd most common surname of 3,662 surnames 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, “Daines” — the 482nd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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