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Daiya

Gender
Girl
Say it
DY-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Daiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

Where does Daiya come from?

Modern: modern name; daiya is also Japanese for diamond

Is Daiya a girl's or a boy's name?

Daiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Daiya in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 5 girls.

2011Busiest: 5 in 20202023
Daiya in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20231#7,582
20220–
20210–
20205#4,110
20194#4,904
20180–
20174#4,967
20160–
20150–
20144#4,888
20130–
20120–
20111#7,717

How popular is Daiya in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,131among girls
Babies in 2025
15about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 110% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Daiya, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the girls named Daiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 18 in 20242025
Daiya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202418#6,391
202311#8,984
20220–
202110#9,557
20206#13,448
20199#10,467
20186#13,788
201715#7,438
201610#10,109
20158#11,830
20149#10,949
201313#8,575
20126#14,956
20110–
20100–
20095#17,288
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20035#15,777
20020–
20010–
20000–
19996#12,681

Names like Daiya

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Daiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daiya, updated 20 October 2026.