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 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Washington#454 · 1 in 3,022
- Texas#1,508 · 1 in 18,810
- California#1,776 · 1 in 23,078
Best ever in a state: #170 in North Dakota, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #454 | 9 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Texas | #1,508 | 7 | 1 in 18,810 |
| California | #1,776 | 9 | 1 in 23,078 |
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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 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 20,669 of them was named Dani, which outranked 88.4% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,484Minerva84
- #1,484Stephen84
- #1,484Yasmine84
- #1,494Dani83
- #1,494Anya83
- #1,494Aundrea83
- #1,494Gayle83
- #1,505Alysa82
- #1,505Angelita82
- #1,505Candyce82
Tied with 10 names at #1,494; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 230,189 of them was named Dani, which outranked 38.0% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,457Zedrick9
- #4,457Zephaniah9
- #4,457Ziyad9
- #4,853Dani8
- #4,853Abdel8
- #4,853Abelino8
- #4,853Abimael8
- #5,332Aaren7
- #5,332Abdurrahman7
- #5,332Abed7
Tied with 478 names at #4,853; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.