Daytona
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- day-TOH-nuh
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Daytona is a name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Daytona mean?
English: from Daytona Beach, Florida, named after its founder Mathias Day
The Florida resort, famous for motor racing, was named in the 1870s after its founder, Mathias Day.
Is Daytona a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Daytona has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 9 boys in the US.
How popular is Daytona in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Daytona, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 46 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985. 9 boys were also named Daytona in 2025 (8,239th for boys).
2025 had fewer girls named Daytona than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Daytona in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2010, 78% of the babies named Daytona in the US were girls.
Daytona in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,267 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,468 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,400 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,727 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,974 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,442 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,440 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,219 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,513 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,440 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,491 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
Names like Daytona
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckenna Sienna Madison Daniela Addison Camila Kiara Brianna Isabella Dahlia Destiny Alondra
Names related to Daytona
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Sources
Figures from 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, “Daytona: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daytona, updated 20 October 2026.