Dania
#1,063 for girls in 2025, 229 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 277 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,818since 1943
Dania over time
Rank among girls' names. Dania has never cracked the top 700 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,063 | 229 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,099 | 223 | — | |
| 2023 | #854 | 312 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,062 | 239 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,277 | 181 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,211 | 189 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,259 | 184 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,346 | 167 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,282 | 184 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,275 | 190 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,227 | 201 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,164 | 211 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,152 | 208 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,014 | 249 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,138 | 215 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,000 | 251 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,025 | 254 | — | |
| 2008 | #995 | 267 | — | |
| 2007 | #888 | 313 | — | |
| 2006 | #981 | 265 | — | |
| 2005 | #976 | 251 | — | |
| 2004 | #974 | 244 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,084 | 203 | — | |
| 2002 | #951 | 235 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,167 | 178 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,073 | 193 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,199 | 160 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,150 | 164 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 169 | — | |
| 1996 | #764 | 277 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,306 | 127 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,634 | 92 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #1,422 | 114 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,575 | 97 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,923 | 72 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,740 | 65 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,624 | 71 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,775 | 53 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,807 | 51 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,647 | 55 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,398 | 30 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,755 | 48 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,012 | 34 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,475 | 25 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,094 | 32 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,357 | 26 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,197 | 29 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,649 | 21 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,596 | 20 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 | — | |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
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| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dania! It came in at #4,196, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dania is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#856 · 1 in 4,845
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,655
- Colorado#899 · 1 in 4,525
- Ohio#975 · 1 in 5,753
- New Jersey#1,006 · 1 in 5,994
Best ever in a state: #115 in District of Columbia, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #856 | 33 | 1 in 4,845 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Colorado | #899 | 5 | 1 in 4,525 |
| Ohio | #975 | 9 | 1 in 5,753 |
| New Jersey | #1,006 | 6 | 1 in 5,994 |
| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| California | #1,051 | 29 | 1 in 6,750 |
| Florida | #1,198 | 11 | 1 in 7,814 |
| Virginia | #1,201 | 5 | 1 in 7,206 |
| North Carolina | #1,242 | 6 | 1 in 7,564 |
| Illinois | #1,250 | 7 | 1 in 7,935 |
| New York | #1,590 | 8 | 1 in 11,000 |
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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 Dania
- 36 spots since 2024 (#1,099 → #1,063)
- 148 spots since 2020 (#1,211 → #1,063)
- 164 spots since 2015 (#1,227 → #1,063)
- Biggest jump: 542 spots in 1996 (#1,306 → #764)
- Biggest drop: 346 spots in 1997 (#764 → #1,110)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1996 at #764 (277 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2004–2008
- Highest: 1 in 5,143 girls born in 2023 were named Dania (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,019 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #764 in 1996, was only 1 in 6,329 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.3% of all girls named Dania (2,403) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 21 | #3,676 (1945) | #3,918 |
| 1950s | 81 | #2,596 (1959) | #4,000 |
| 1960s | 310 | #1,755 (1969) | #2,218 |
| 1970s | 497 | #1,576 (1977) | #1,893 |
| 1980s | 692 | #1,535 (1984) | #1,703 |
| 1990s | 1,381 | #764 (1996) | #1,354 |
| 2000s | 2,403 | #888 (2007) | #1,011 |
| 2010s | 2,060 | #1,000 (2010) | #1,186 |
| 2020s | 1,373 | #854 (2023) | #1,094 |
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.
Dania in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,383 of them was named Dania, which outranked 93.1% 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).
- #1,274Shirley185
- #1,274Tallulah185
- #1,274Yaretzy185
- #1,282Dania184
- #1,282Adela184
- #1,282Christiana184
- #1,282Gisselle184
- #1,287Darcy183
- #1,287Karleigh183
- #1,287Kylah183
Tied with 4 names at #1,282; 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.