Danya
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · Last seen for boys in 2003 at #7,831
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 64 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,649since 1939
Danya over time
Rank among girls' names. Danya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,336 | 80 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,029 | 101 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,503 | 69 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,100 | 86 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #1,984 | 88 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,426 | 63 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,014 | 69 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,006 | 68 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,142 | 63 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,112 | 64 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,105 | 64 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,048 | 52 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,912 | 56 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,824 | 55 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,637 | 64 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #1,729 | 55 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #1,646 | 56 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,171 | 36 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,173 | 35 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,137 | 38 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,859 | 47 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,096 | 16 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Danya! It came in at #3,429, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Danya is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#1,113 · 1 in 8,186
- Texas#1,176 · 1 in 7,913
- California#2,019 · 1 in 19,564
Best ever in a state: #585 in Tennessee, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #1,113 | 7 | 1 in 8,186 |
| Texas | #1,176 | 21 | 1 in 7,913 |
| California | #2,019 | 12 | 1 in 19,564 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Danya
- 443 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #4,265)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #4,265)
- 1,338 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 1977 at #1,637 (64 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,259 girls born in 2007 were named Danya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,637 in 1977, was only 1 in 23,955 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.9% of all girls named Danya (908) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 7 | #3,429 (1939) | #3,429 |
| 1940s | 82 | #2,096 (1941) | #3,741 |
| 1950s | 78 | #2,652 (1950) | #4,430 |
| 1960s | 197 | #2,058 (1969) | #3,070 |
| 1970s | 468 | #1,637 (1977) | #1,958 |
| 1980s | 452 | #1,833 (1980) | #2,327 |
| 1990s | 599 | #2,006 (1995) | #2,286 |
| 2000s | 908 | #1,726 (2007) | #2,083 |
| 2010s | 639 | #2,336 (2012) | #2,790 |
| 2020s | 219 | #3,033 (2022) | #4,082 |
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.
Danya in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 19,804 of them was named Danya, which outranked 89.8% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,031Semaj97
- #2,031Shanice97
- #2,031Trina97
- #2,050Danya96
- #2,050Adria96
- #2,050Arwen96
- #2,050Elia96
- #2,069Autum95
- #2,069Bernadette95
- #2,069Billie95
Tied with 18 names at #2,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.