Danica
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,522since 1916
Danica over time
Rank among girls' names. Danica has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 |
| 2024 | #1,553 | 137 |
| 2023 | #1,534 | 139 |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 |
| 2021 | #1,075 | 233 |
| 2020 | #1,158 | 203 |
| 2019 | #1,096 | 226 |
| 2018 | #994 | 263 |
| 2017 | #870 | 314 |
| 2016 | #865 | 325 |
| 2015 | #708 | 403 |
| 2014 | #557 | 553 |
| 2013 | #558 | 524 |
| 2012 | #509 | 599 |
| 2011 | #459 | 647 |
| 2010 | #425 | 737 |
| 2009 | #377 | 861 |
| 2008 | #336 | 991 |
| 2007 | #307 | 1,109 |
| 2006 | #353 | 935 |
| 2005 | #611 | 465 |
| 2004 | #1,118 | 204 |
| 2003 | #1,227 | 172 |
| 2002 | #1,185 | 173 |
| 2001 | #1,348 | 142 |
| 2000 | #1,075 | 192 |
| 1999 | #1,159 | 168 |
| 1998 | #1,133 | 167 |
| 1997 | #1,079 | 174 |
| 1996 | #1,042 | 178 |
| 1995 | #837 | 234 |
| 1994 | #775 | 262 |
| 1993 | #719 | 296 |
| 1992 | #773 | 267 |
| 1991 | #728 | 285 |
| 1990 | #638 | 351 |
| 1989 | #639 | 328 |
| 1988 | #860 | 207 |
| 1987 | #970 | 163 |
| 1986 | #955 | 165 |
| 1985 | #856 | 188 |
| 1984 | #797 | 200 |
| 1983 | #880 | 172 |
| 1982 | #950 | 156 |
| 1981 | #955 | 153 |
| 1980 | #925 | 161 |
| 1979 | #894 | 167 |
| 1978 | #964 | 144 |
| 1977 | #921 | 152 |
| 1976 | #1,104 | 109 |
| 1975 | #1,066 | 110 |
| 1974 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1973 | #1,458 | 65 |
| 1972 | #1,502 | 63 |
| 1971 | #1,613 | 58 |
| 1970 | #1,343 | 78 |
| 1969 | #1,609 | 55 |
| 1968 | #1,607 | 51 |
| 1967 | #1,947 | 36 |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 |
| 1965 | #1,801 | 40 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Danica! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Danica is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#481 · 1 in 4,827
- Georgia#669 · 1 in 5,375
- California#763 · 1 in 6,389
- Illinois#767 · 1 in 7,090
- New York#806 · 1 in 7,023
Best ever in a state: #49 in North Dakota, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #481 | 6 | 1 in 4,827 |
| Georgia | #669 | 6 | 1 in 5,375 |
| California | #763 | 24 | 1 in 6,389 |
| Illinois | #767 | 10 | 1 in 7,090 |
| New York | #806 | 14 | 1 in 7,023 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| Ohio | #874 | 6 | 1 in 11,492 |
| Texas | #1,629 | 5 | 1 in 20,678 |
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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 Danica
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,553 → #1,631)
- 473 spots since 2020 (#1,158 → #1,631)
- 923 spots since 2015 (#708 → #1,631)
- Biggest jump: 507 spots in 2005 (#1,118 → #611)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 1996 (#837 → #1,042)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2007 at #307 (1,109 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1977–1995
- Highest: 1 in 1,734 girls born in 2007 were named Danica (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,656 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 31.7% of all girls named Danica (5,244) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,417 (1916) | #4,613 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 42 | #4,202 (1957) | #4,893 |
| 1960s | 290 | #1,607 (1968) | #2,645 |
| 1970s | 1,051 | #894 (1979) | #1,197 |
| 1980s | 1,893 | #639 (1989) | #879 |
| 1990s | 2,382 | #638 (1990) | #888 |
| 2000s | 5,244 | #307 (2007) | #794 |
| 2010s | 4,591 | #425 (2010) | #704 |
| 2020s | 1,019 | #1,075 (2021) | #1,377 |
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.
Danica in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 10,638 of them was named Danica, which outranked 91.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #958Patty145
- #958Trinity145
- #958Trista145
- #964Danica144
- #964Melodie144
- #964Raina144
- #964Suzette144
- #969Charla143
- #969Danna143
- #969Khalilah143
Tied with 4 names at #964; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.