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
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 166 births
- Debut · girls
- 21 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,472since 2012
Daenerys over time
Rank among girls' names. Daenerys 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,758 | 115 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,559 | 136 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,656 | 125 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,851 | 108 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,508 | 144 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,360 | 166 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,842 | 111 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,278 | 82 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | — | |
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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.
Where Daenerys is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#1,042 · 1 in 6,020
- Illinois#1,055 · 1 in 6,172
- New York#1,358 · 1 in 8,800
- Florida#1,380 · 1 in 9,551
- Texas#1,666 · 1 in 12,298
Best ever in a state: #769 in Maryland, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| New York | #1,358 | 10 | 1 in 8,800 |
| Florida | #1,380 | 9 | 1 in 9,551 |
| Texas | #1,666 | 13 | 1 in 12,298 |
| California | #1,805 | 13 | 1 in 15,058 |
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See more about Daenerys
- 199 spots since 2024 (#1,559 → #1,758)
- 377 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #1,758)
- 520 spots since 2015 (#2,278 → #1,758)
- Debuted 2012
- Peaked 2018 at #1,360 (166 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 53.0% of all girls named Daenerys (780) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 780 | #1,360 (2018) | #2,481 |
| 2020s | 692 | #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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,554 of them was named Daenerys, which outranked 90.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,828Lillith112
- #1,828Peighton112
- #1,828Theia112
- #1,842Daenerys111
- #1,842Alyana111
- #1,842Arizona111
- #1,842Chasity111
- #1,854Dara110
- #1,854Eiza110
- #1,854Gisele110
Tied with 11 names at #1,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.