Dann

Where Dann comes from

Dann hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #3,800 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1950
    Dann Florek born
    American actor
  3. 1960
    Dann Huff born
    American record producer and songwriter
  4. 1962
    Peak, #1,558
    52 babies named Dann — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,543.
  6. 2003
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dann Florek · American actor, born 1950
  • Dann Huff · American record producer and songwriter, born 1960
  • Dann Hume · New Zealand musician, born 1987
  • Dann Thomas · writer, born 1952
  • Dann Cahn · American film editor, 1923–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.