Danica

Where Danica comes from

From Slavic female given name, from the Slavic name for the Morning Star (an aspect of the planet Venus).
— Wiktionary's entry for Danica
  • Slavic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Danica McKellar born
    American actress and writer
  3. 1982
    Danica Patrick born
    American racecar driver
  4. 2007
    Peak, #307
    1,109 babies named Danica — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #558.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages.
Namesakes
  • Danica Patrick · American racecar driver, born 1982
  • Danica McKellar · American actress and writer, born 1975
  • Danica Roem · American journalist and politician, born 1984
  • Danica Dillan · American pornographic actress, born 1987
  • Danica Grujičić · Serbian health minister since 2022, born 1959

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.