Dain is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dain in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dain in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dain by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dain ranks at #5,222. That means there are 5,221 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dain.
While Dain isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1978 the name Dain reached its highest popularity with #1,005 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Dain. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Dain.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dain was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 13 babies were born with the name Dain. This puts the name in rank 5,559 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 12,417,385 newborns was named Dain that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Dain has been and remains marvelously unusual!
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Dain. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 222 Americans who bear this name. And these 222 men and boys named Dain live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Dain lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Dain and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Dain relative to its male population is Minnesota. And even there, only one male in 36,744 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Dain.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Dain is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dain and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dain, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dain sounds like this:
