Dani
#746 for girls in 2025, 364 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 90.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 432 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,339since 1942
Dani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #746 | 364 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #680 | 420 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #773 | 364 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #674 | 432 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #732 | 389 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #803 | 337 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #861 | 311 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #939 | 284 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #1,046 | 246 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #1,068 | 244 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #1,030 | 259 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #1,040 | 249 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #1,068 | 232 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #1,071 | 233 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #1,164 | 210 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #1,317 | 178 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #1,184 | 212 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #1,065 | 245 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2007 | #1,194 | 212 | #3,379 | 32 |
| 2006 | #1,398 | 162 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #1,631 | 123 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #1,642 | 112 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #1,851 | 95 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #1,791 | 97 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #1,732 | 93 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | #1,675 | 95 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #1,475 | 111 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #1,381 | 119 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #1,389 | 118 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #1,397 | 116 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #1,505 | 103 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #1,586 | 95 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #1,414 | 105 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #1,269 | 115 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #1,302 | 106 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #1,494 | 83 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #1,297 | 103 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #1,657 | 66 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #1,807 | 60 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #1,423 | 86 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #1,408 | 88 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #1,770 | 61 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #1,358 | 87 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #1,315 | 88 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #1,446 | 72 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #1,481 | 69 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,520 | 64 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | #1,104 | 102 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #1,192 | 90 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #1,322 | 81 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #1,526 | 64 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,355 | 71 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,118 | 91 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,255 | 73 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #1,312 | 68 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #1,390 | 63 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #1,372 | 67 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #1,250 | 77 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #1,429 | 60 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #1,398 | 64 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1960 | #1,501 | 54 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #1,244 | 74 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #961 | 115 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #771 | 168 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #846 | 137 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #1,383 | 52 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,122 | 24 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,200 | 22 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dani! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dani is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#412 · 1 in 4,003
- California#871 · 1 in 14,617
- Texas#1,098 · 1 in 18,651
Best ever in a state: #170 in North Dakota, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #412 | 7 | 1 in 4,003 |
| California | #871 | 10 | 1 in 14,617 |
| Texas | #1,098 | 6 | 1 in 18,651 |
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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 Dani
- 66 spots since 2024 (#680 → #746)
- 57 spots since 2020 (#803 → #746)
- 284 spots since 2015 (#1,030 → #746)
- Biggest jump: 537 spots in 1956 (#1,383 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 283 spots in 1959 (#961 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2022 at #674 (432 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,797 girls born in 2022 were named Dani (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,416 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 23.7% of all girls named Dani (2,446) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 46 | #2,850 (1949) | #4,018 |
| 1950s | 641 | #771 (1957) | #1,827 |
| 1960s | 688 | #1,118 (1968) | #1,338 |
| 1970s | 778 | #1,104 (1973) | #1,403 |
| 1980s | 883 | #1,269 (1988) | #1,464 |
| 1990s | 1,055 | #1,381 (1995) | #1,523 |
| 2000s | 1,496 | #1,065 (2008) | #1,500 |
| 2010s | 2,446 | #861 (2019) | #1,060 |
| 2020s | 2,306 | #674 (2022) | #735 |
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.
Dani in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
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1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 37,601 of them was named Dani, which outranked 79.5% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,371Sherlyn53
- #1,371Sherrell53
- #1,371Yasmin53
- #1,383Dani52
- #1,383Cleta52
- #1,383Concepcion52
- #1,383Danelle52
- #1,404Alane51
- #1,404Arlette51
- #1,404Barb51
Tied with 20 names at #1,383; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.