Dannie

Where Dannie comes from

Dannie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1872
    Dannie Heineman born
    Belgian-American engineer and businessman
  2. 1893
    First appearance
    #907 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Dannie Abse born
    Welsh poet and writer
  4. 1946
    Peak, #397
    262 babies named Dannie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #709.
  6. 2024
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dannie Abse · Welsh poet and writer, 1923–2014
  • Dannie Heineman · Belgian-American engineer and businessman, 1872–1962
  • Dannie Richmond · American drummer, 1931–1988
  • Dannie Bulman · English association football player, born 1979

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.