Danette
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 501 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,392since 1930
Danette over time
Rank among girls' names. Danette has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,640 | 44 |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 |
| 1987 | #1,647 | 74 |
| 1986 | #1,691 | 69 |
| 1985 | #1,740 | 65 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,496 | 76 |
| 1982 | #1,293 | 98 |
| 1981 | #1,227 | 106 |
| 1980 | #1,227 | 107 |
| 1979 | #959 | 151 |
| 1978 | #791 | 189 |
| 1977 | #769 | 196 |
| 1976 | #684 | 216 |
| 1975 | #645 | 237 |
| 1974 | #671 | 224 |
| 1973 | #606 | 255 |
| 1972 | #561 | 295 |
| 1971 | #501 | 379 |
| 1970 | #493 | 407 |
| 1969 | #472 | 415 |
| 1968 | #508 | 366 |
| 1967 | #460 | 422 |
| 1966 | #416 | 501 |
| 1965 | #440 | 458 |
| 1964 | #463 | 438 |
| 1963 | #461 | 447 |
| 1962 | #460 | 446 |
| 1961 | #461 | 450 |
| 1960 | #461 | 451 |
| 1959 | #483 | 401 |
| 1958 | #503 | 364 |
| 1957 | #499 | 360 |
| 1956 | #617 | 240 |
| 1955 | #698 | 181 |
| 1954 | #787 | 142 |
| 1953 | #921 | 105 |
| 1952 | #1,059 | 79 |
| 1951 | #1,254 | 55 |
| 1950 | #1,333 | 47 |
| 1949 | #1,917 | 25 |
| 1948 | #1,669 | 31 |
| 1947 | #1,722 | 31 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Danette! It came in at #4,550, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1932, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Danette is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#323 · 1 in 1,553
- Colorado#559 · 1 in 4,153
- Pennsylvania#657 · 1 in 6,935
- California#1,017 · 1 in 10,072
- Ohio#1,036 · 1 in 14,450
Best ever in a state: #129 in Hawaii, 1965.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #323 | 6 | 1 in 1,553 |
| Colorado | #559 | 5 | 1 in 4,153 |
| Pennsylvania | #657 | 10 | 1 in 6,935 |
| California | #1,017 | 18 | 1 in 10,072 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 14,450 |
| Texas | #1,770 | 5 | 1 in 24,747 |
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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 Danette
- 4,671 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #14,942)
- 4,692 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #14,942)
- 6,011 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 1953 (#1,059 → #921)
- Biggest drop: 268 spots in 1980 (#959 → #1,227)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1966 at #416 (501 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1953–1979
- Highest: 1 in 3,378 girls born in 1966 were named Danette (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all girls named Danette (4,394) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 37 | #2,940 (1938) | #3,832 |
| 1940s | 183 | #1,669 (1948) | #2,331 |
| 1950s | 1,974 | #483 (1959) | #815 |
| 1960s | 4,394 | #416 (1966) | #460 |
| 1970s | 2,549 | #493 (1970) | #668 |
| 1980s | 745 | #1,227 (1980) | #1,709 |
| 1990s | 252 | #2,640 (1990) | #4,452 |
| 2000s | 120 | #6,487 (2000) | #9,132 |
| 2010s | 92 | #5,935 (2011) | #10,830 |
| 2020s | 46 | #8,542 (2022) | #10,599 |
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.
Danette in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 15,736 of them was named Danette, which outranked 89.9% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,220Shenika107
- #1,220Tamekia107
- #1,220Tequila107
- #1,227Danette106
- #1,227Annamarie106
- #1,227Corie106
- #1,227Dannielle106
- #1,239Candie105
- #1,239Chanelle105
- #1,239Estela105
Tied with 11 names at #1,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.