Meaning not yet researched.
Dania: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 229 in 2025. Its best rank was #764 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #764 in 1996; #1,063 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dania in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,063 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #764.
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Dania: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 229 girls in 2025. Peak: #764 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 313 (2007).
In 2025, 229 US girls were named Dania, making it the 1,063rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 36 places from #1,099 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 223 girls named Dania in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #764, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 313, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,228 in 2015 and #4,399 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dania in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 6 babies. In all, 8,823 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,403 babies named Dania.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,098 US girls were named Dania; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 312. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,019 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dania ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #701 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), Dani (11,424 babies since 1880), Danita (7,516 babies since 1880) and Danya (3,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Damia, Dunia and Danyah 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 Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Damia (1,154), Dunia (629), Danyah (222), Daia (112), Danisa (92), Danyiah (51), Daneah (25), Daniaya (5), Danyea (5), Danja (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 Dania 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 9 | #701 | #1,137 |
| Texas | 43 | #705 | #796 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #714 | — |
| California | 35 | #839 | #908 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #864 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #872 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #912 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #921 | #1,286 |
| Colorado | 5 | #939 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #949 | #1,003 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,016 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,083 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,227 | #789 |
| New York | 11 | #1,252 | #1,309 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,271 | #1,280 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,415 | #1,565 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 229 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2024 | 223 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2023 | 312 | #855 | — | — |
| 2022 | 239 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2021 | 181 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2017 | 184 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2016 | 190 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 2015 | 201 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2014 | 211 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2013 | 208 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2012 | 249 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2011 | 215 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2010 | 251 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2009 | 254 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2008 | 267 | #995 | — | — |
| 2007 | 313 | #888 | — | — |
| 2006 | 265 | #982 | — | — |
| 2005 | 251 | #977 | — | — |
| 2004 | 244 | #975 | — | — |
| 2003 | 203 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2002 | 235 | #951 | — | — |
| 2001 | 178 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2000 | 193 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1999 | 160 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1998 | 164 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1996 | 277 | #764 | — | — |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,463 | 5 | #9,007 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,170 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,288 | — | — |
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).