Dan

Where Dan comes from

From Hebrew דָּן (Dan).
— Wiktionary's entry for Dan
  • Hebrew
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #97 among boys — 140 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #86
    148 babies named Dan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    Dan Quayle born
    vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
  4. 1948
    Dan Simmons born
    American novelist
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Danielle.
Namesakes
  • Dan Quayle · vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993, born 1947
  • Dan Simmons · American novelist, 1948–2026
  • Dan Burn · English association football player, born 1992
  • Dan Rather · American broadcast journalist, born 1931
  • Dan Ndoye · Swiss association football player, born 2000

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.