Meaning not yet researched.
Danae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #913 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #913 in 1991; #2,417 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,417 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #913.
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Danae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #913 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 212 (2001).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Danae, making it the 2,417th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,073 places from #1,344 in 2024. That is 96 fewer than the 170 girls named Danae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #913, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 212, in 2001. For comparison, it was #2,198 in 2015 and #4,398 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danae in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 7,449 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,815 babies named Danae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,034 US girls were named Danae; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 170. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Danae ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,419 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dana (246,842 babies since 1880), Danna (25,240 babies since 1880), Dayna (14,547 babies since 1880) and Daina (2,527 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Danae 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,419 | #1,732 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,951 | #1,899 |
| California | 10 | #1,984 | #1,751 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 2015 | 86 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2006 | 182 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 2005 | 181 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2004 | 200 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2003 | 196 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 2002 | 202 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2001 | 212 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2000 | 171 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1998 | 144 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1997 | 157 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1996 | 155 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1992 | 202 | #954 | — | — |
| 1991 | 211 | #913 | — | — |
| 1990 | 191 | #976 | 6 | #7,365 |
| 1989 | 164 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1987 | 157 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1985 | 124 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1984 | 119 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1982 | 122 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,275 | — | — |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,769 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,722 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,460 | — | — |
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).