Meaning not yet researched.
Danette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #416 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #416 in 1966; #15,462 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,462 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #416.
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Danette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #416 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 501 (1966).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Danette, making it the 15,462nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,987 places from #10,475 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 girls named Danette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #416, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 501. For comparison, it was #9,085 in 2015 and #1,335 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danette in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 10,392 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,394 babies named Danette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 78 US girls were named Danette; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dannette (2,155 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Danett, Dannett and Danyette are summarised on this page.
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 English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Danett (143), Dannett (38), Danyette (22), Dainette (14), Danute (11), Danet (11), Daniette (5).
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 Danette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,462 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,475 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,131 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,651 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,469 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,683 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,216 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,902 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,045 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,085 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,514 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,838 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,371 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,536 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,885 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,298 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,783 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,001 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,089 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,303 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,144 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,309 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,567 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,075 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,136 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,269 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1982 | 98 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1980 | 107 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1979 | 151 | #960 | — | — |
| 1978 | 189 | #791 | — | — |
| 1977 | 196 | #769 | — | — |
| 1976 | 216 | #686 | — | — |
| 1975 | 237 | #645 | — | — |
| 1974 | 224 | #671 | — | — |
| 1973 | 255 | #606 | — | — |
| 1972 | 295 | #561 | — | — |
| 1971 | 379 | #501 | — | — |
| 1970 | 407 | #493 | — | — |
| 1969 | 415 | #472 | — | — |
| 1968 | 366 | #508 | — | — |
| 1967 | 422 | #460 | — | — |
| 1966 | 501 | #416 | — | — |
| 1965 | 458 | #440 | — | — |
| 1964 | 438 | #463 | — | — |
| 1963 | 447 | #462 | — | — |
| 1962 | 446 | #461 | — | — |
| 1961 | 450 | #461 | — | — |
| 1960 | 451 | #461 | — | — |
| 1959 | 401 | #483 | — | — |
| 1958 | 364 | #503 | — | — |
| 1957 | 360 | #499 | — | — |
| 1956 | 240 | #618 | — | — |
| 1955 | 181 | #698 | — | — |
| 1954 | 142 | #787 | — | — |
| 1953 | 105 | #921 | — | — |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,835 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,697 | — | — |
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).