Daina is from the Latvian / Lithuanian daina — folk song. A modern American baby name in the broader Latvian-Baltic heritage aesthetic. Daina is one of the foundational Latvian feminine names — central to the foundational Latvian Dainas tradition (Latvian: latviešu dainas) — the foundational corpus of approximately 1.2 million traditional Latvian four-line folk songs that constitute one of the foundational oral folklore collections in world heritage. Compiled by Krišjānis Barons (1835-1923) in the foundational Dainu Skapis (Cabinet of Folksongs, 1880-1915) — inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register (2001). Foundational to traditional Latvian wedding + funeral + agricultural + life-cycle rituals + the foundational Song and Dance Celebration (Dziesmu un Deju Svētki, UNESCO Intangible Heritage). Foundational Latvian feminine name reflecting Baltic Dainas heritage.
Featured throughout Latvian heritage.
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Daina reduces to five.