Meaning not yet researched.
Daenerys: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 115 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,361 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,361 in 2018; #1,760 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daenerys in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,760 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,361.
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Daenerys: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 115 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,361 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 166 (2018).
In 2025, 115 US girls were named Daenerys, making it the 1,760th most common girls’ name of the year, down 201 places from #1,559 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 136 girls named Daenerys in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,361, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 166. For comparison, it was #2,283 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daenerys in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 21 babies. In all, 1,477 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 785 babies named Daenerys.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,215 US girls were named Daenerys; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,976 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Daenerys ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,066 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Daenarys and Danerys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in High Valyrian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daenarys (21), Danerys (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Daenerys in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,066 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,166 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,187 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,440 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,474 | #3,396 |
| California | 15 | #1,510 | #1,449 |
| New York | 8 | #1,557 | #1,814 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).