Day
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning period of daylight; day of the week.
Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Day by the numbers
Day was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 1973, making it a 1970s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Day. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean the dawn
Like Day, each of these has the dawn in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Auroradawn; Roman goddess of sunrise1,030 in England and Wales (2025)
- Albadawn; white472 in England and Wales (2025)
- Vihaanmorning, dawn93 in England and Wales (2025)
- Zoradawn203 in the US (2017)
- Roxannedawn; a form of Roxana188 in the US (2017)
- Tariqmorning star or one who knocks36 in England and Wales (2025)