Danya
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · Last seen for boys in 2003 at #7,831
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 64 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,649since 1939
Danya over time
Rank among girls' names. Danya has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #4,265 | 33 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,336 | 80 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,029 | 101 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,503 | 69 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,100 | 86 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #1,984 | 88 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,426 | 63 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,014 | 69 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,006 | 68 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,142 | 63 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,112 | 64 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,105 | 64 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,048 | 52 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,912 | 56 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,824 | 55 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,637 | 64 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #1,729 | 55 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #1,646 | 56 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,171 | 36 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,173 | 35 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,137 | 38 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,859 | 47 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,058 | 37 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,096 | 16 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Danya! It came in at #3,429, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Danya is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,341 · 1 in 14,957
Best ever in a state: #585 in Tennessee, 1974.
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| California | #1,341 | 10 | 1 in 14,957 |
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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 Danya
- 443 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #4,265)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #4,265)
- 1,338 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 1977 at #1,637 (64 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,259 girls born in 2007 were named Danya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,637 in 1977, was only 1 in 23,955 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.9% of all girls named Danya (908) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 7 | #3,429 (1939) | #3,429 |
| 1940s | 82 | #2,096 (1941) | #3,741 |
| 1950s | 78 | #2,652 (1950) | #4,430 |
| 1960s | 197 | #2,058 (1969) | #3,070 |
| 1970s | 468 | #1,637 (1977) | #1,958 |
| 1980s | 452 | #1,833 (1980) | #2,327 |
| 1990s | 599 | #2,006 (1995) | #2,286 |
| 2000s | 908 | #1,726 (2007) | #2,083 |
| 2010s | 639 | #2,336 (2012) | #2,790 |
| 2020s | 219 | #3,033 (2022) | #4,082 |
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.
Danya in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 23,955 of them was named Danya, which outranked 85.6% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,621Shilo65
- #1,621Shiloh65
- #1,621Xiomara65
- #1,637Danya64
- #1,637Aleshia64
- #1,637Ali64
- #1,637Cody64
- #1,661Agnes63
- #1,661Ammie63
- #1,661Benjamin63
Tied with 23 names at #1,637; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Danya, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.