Daiana
From Latin, carrying the sense "divine". It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met a Daiana, and the few girls given the name each year are fewer now than a couple of years back.
Daiana Pronunciation
Daiana is pronounced dah-YAH-nah (/daˈjana/).
What Daiana means
Where Daiana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Daiana traces back to Latin, where the root points to the divine, to what belongs to the sky and the daylight. The Roman goddess Diana carried that sense first: her name sits close to the Latin words dius and divus, meaning godlike or heavenly. To read Daiana this way is to read "divine," boska in Polish, in a spelling that follows the sound of the name rather than its oldest written form.
That older form was Diana, and the bright association is ancient. Roman writers tied the goddess to the moon and to the open sky, so a sense of brightness settled onto the name early and stayed.
On a Polish class register, Daiana stands out among the Annas and Katarzynas. The spelling is newer here. It reached Polish families largely through film and television, a phonetic version of a Latin name, and it keeps the plain meaning intact: divine, boska.
How many people are named Daiana
1 in 49330 women in Poland is named Daiana. 457 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1384 among female names.
Daiana's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1026 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Daiana as a middle name
Daiana is a first name for 457 women in Poland and a middle name for another 43, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1045th, between Christiana (43) and Esperanza (43).
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#1043 Basia43
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#1044 Christiana43
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#1045 Daiana43
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#1046 Esperanza43
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#1047 Isla43