Meaning not yet researched.
Dane: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 301 in 2025. Its best rank was #221 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #221 in 1986; #821 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dane in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#821 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #221.
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Dane: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 301 boys in 2025. Peak: #221 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 1,069 (1986).
In 2025, 301 US boys were named Dane, making it the 821st most common boys’ name of the year, up 52 places from #873 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 276 boys named Dane in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #221, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,069. For comparison, it was #630 in 2015 and #550 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dane in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 33,979 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 6,897 babies named Dane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,906 US boys were named Dane; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 355. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dane ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #228 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dana (246,842 babies since 1880), Dan (107,130 babies since 1880), Dayne (4,091 babies since 1880) and Dann (2,234 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.
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 Dane in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #228 | — |
| Utah | 14 | #334 | #574 |
| Idaho | 7 | #341 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #376 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #531 | #460 |
| Iowa | 5 | #598 | #389 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #600 | #357 |
| Arizona | 11 | #600 | #805 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #640 | #652 |
| Washington | 10 | #649 | #609 |
| Missouri | 8 | #663 | #470 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #683 | #687 |
| Virginia | 10 | #684 | #906 |
| Florida | 21 | #733 | #920 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #769 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #783 | #711 |
| California | 29 | #831 | #602 |
| Michigan | 8 | #849 | #540 |
| Ohio | 9 | #877 | #391 |
| Indiana | 6 | #878 | #547 |
| Illinois | 9 | #882 | #510 |
| Texas | 25 | #958 | #838 |
| New York | 10 | #1,142 | #961 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,177 | #917 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,394 | #714 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 301 | #821 |
| 2024 | — | — | 276 | #873 |
| 2023 | — | — | 258 | #901 |
| 2022 | — | — | 277 | #869 |
| 2021 | — | — | 285 | #835 |
| 2020 | — | — | 273 | #834 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,112 | 253 | #872 |
| 2018 | — | — | 315 | #748 |
| 2017 | — | — | 313 | #753 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,769 | 355 | #695 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,089 | 424 | #630 |
| 2014 | — | — | 423 | #623 |
| 2013 | — | — | 482 | #550 |
| 2012 | — | — | 573 | #476 |
| 2011 | — | — | 574 | #470 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,648 | 684 | #411 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,056 | 818 | #372 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,871 | 918 | #349 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,963 | 949 | #340 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,946 | 762 | #392 |
| 2005 | — | — | 560 | #457 |
| 2004 | — | — | 537 | #469 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,364 | 574 | #437 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,997 | 534 | #456 |
| 2001 | — | — | 549 | #441 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,576 | 583 | #423 |
| 1999 | — | — | 545 | #428 |
| 1998 | — | — | 455 | #481 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,384 | 505 | #442 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,785 | 517 | #435 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,799 | 517 | #443 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,000 | 521 | #436 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,620 | 516 | #430 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,383 | 552 | #410 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,849 | 580 | #392 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,458 | 739 | #335 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,160 | 682 | #338 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,387 | 760 | #299 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,327 | 757 | #285 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,253 | 1,069 | #221 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,425 | 1,003 | #230 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,392 | 637 | #306 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,630 | 831 | #252 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,276 | 398 | #419 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,545 | 334 | #454 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,744 | 321 | #468 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,831 | 337 | #437 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,509 | 259 | #505 |
| 1977 | — | — | 167 | #653 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,288 | 157 | #654 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,626 | 160 | #645 |
| 1974 | — | — | 174 | #610 |
| 1973 | — | — | 207 | #543 |
| 1972 | — | — | 205 | #559 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,198 | 205 | #569 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,245 | 235 | #527 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,084 | 247 | #489 |
| 1968 | — | — | 255 | #475 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,578 | 221 | #505 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,779 | 179 | #568 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,718 | 215 | #522 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,095 | 342 | #431 |
| 1963 | — | — | 316 | #448 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,403 | 281 | #473 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,970 | 299 | #470 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,547 | 288 | #468 |
| 1959 | — | — | 357 | #421 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,542 | 287 | #462 |
| 1957 | — | — | 353 | #415 |
| 1956 | — | — | 291 | #442 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,455 | 225 | #489 |
| 1954 | — | — | 280 | #429 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,168 | 179 | #534 |
| 1952 | — | — | 189 | #507 |
| 1951 | — | — | 161 | #534 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,842 | 151 | #550 |
| 1949 | — | — | 160 | #529 |
| 1948 | — | — | 144 | #557 |
| 1947 | — | — | 176 | #511 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,536 | 139 | #542 |
| 1945 | — | — | 69 | #736 |
| 1944 | — | — | 29 | #1,239 |
| 1943 | — | — | 27 | #1,350 |
| 1942 | — | — | 16 | #1,815 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,420 |
| 1940 | — | — | 29 | #1,254 |
| 1939 | — | — | 14 | #1,895 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,842 |
| 1937 | — | — | 19 | #1,590 |
| 1936 | — | — | 22 | #1,426 |
| 1935 | — | — | 20 | #1,551 |
| 1934 | — | — | 26 | #1,329 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,656 |
| 1932 | — | — | 24 | #1,436 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,698 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,656 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,635 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #1,980 |
| 1927 | — | — | 24 | #1,566 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,621 |
| 1925 | — | — | 35 | #1,205 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,735 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,657 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #1,968 |
| 1921 | — | — | 27 | #1,458 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,924 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,781 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,247 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,000 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,319 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,343 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,247 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,164 |
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).