Daenerys

#1,758 for girls in 2025, 115 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
Given to girls 99.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2018 · 166 births
Debut · girls
21 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,472
since 2012

Daenerys over time

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Rank among girls' names. Daenerys has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #1,360, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,758115
2024#1,559136
2023#1,656125
2022#1,692123
2021#1,851108
2020#2,13585
2019#1,508144#12,1455
2018#1,360166
2017#1,842111
2016#1,956102
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First appearance
2012

The first year at least five girls were named Daenerys! It came in at #6,110, and was given to 21 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2012, when fewer than 22 girls a year got the name.

See more about Daenerys
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 199 spots since 2024 (#1,559#1,758)
  • 377 spots since 2020 (#2,135#1,758)
  • 520 spots since 2015 (#2,278#1,758)
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2012
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,360 (166 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,247
  • Highest: 1 in 10,247 girls born in 2018 were named Daenerys (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,976 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 53.0% of all girls named Daenerys (780) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2010s780#1,360 (2018)#2,481
2020s692#1,559 (2024)#1,775

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Daenerys in 2019

girls
#1,508
144 births · 1 in 11,655 girls
boys
#12,145
5 births · 1 in 358,843 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #1,508Daenerys144

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #12,145Daenerys5
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 11,655 of them was named Daenerys, which outranked 91.6% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daenerys
  1. #1,502Pepper145
  2. #1,502Rori145
  3. #1,502True145
  4. #1,508Daenerys144
  5. #1,508Arwen144
  6. #1,508Charlize144
  7. #1,508Danika144
  8. #1,516Emry143
  9. #1,516Kamiya143
  10. #1,516Katarina143

Tied with 7 names at #1,508; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 358,843 of them was named Daenerys, which outranked 14.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daenerys
  1. #10,803Zyking6
  2. #10,803Zymarion6
  3. #10,803Zyren6
  4. #12,145Daenerys5
  5. #12,145Aadav5
  6. #12,145Aaliyah5
  7. #12,145Aanay5

Tied with 1,988 names at #12,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019