Meaning not yet researched.
Danica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 127 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #307 in 2007; #1,634 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,634 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #307.
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Danica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 127 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 1,109 (2007).
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Danica, making it the 1,634th most common girls’ name of the year, down 80 places from #1,554 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 137 girls named Danica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,109. For comparison, it was #708 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danica in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 16,522 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,244 babies named Danica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,147 US girls were named Danica; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 325. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,656 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Danica ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #838 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Danika (10,697 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dannika, Dannica and Danyka 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 Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dannika (571), Dannica (444), Danyka (234), Daneka (201), Danicka (180), Danaka (139), Danikah (93), Danikka (44), Danaica (20), Danaca (16), Danicah (12), Danyca (10), and more.
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 Danica 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #838 | #464 |
| Missouri | 5 | #968 | #998 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,045 | #1,087 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,075 | #790 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,217 | #512 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,272 | #363 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,318 | #518 |
| California | 16 | #1,427 | #697 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,462 | #713 |
| New York | 6 | #1,881 | #717 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,262 | #1,101 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 2020 | 203 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2019 | 226 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 2018 | 263 | #995 | — | — |
| 2017 | 314 | #871 | — | — |
| 2016 | 325 | #867 | — | — |
| 2015 | 403 | #708 | — | — |
| 2014 | 553 | #558 | — | — |
| 2013 | 524 | #558 | — | — |
| 2012 | 599 | #509 | — | — |
| 2011 | 647 | #459 | — | — |
| 2010 | 737 | #425 | — | — |
| 2009 | 861 | #379 | — | — |
| 2008 | 991 | #336 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,109 | #307 | — | — |
| 2006 | 935 | #353 | — | — |
| 2005 | 465 | #611 | — | — |
| 2004 | 204 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2003 | 172 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2002 | 173 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2000 | 192 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1995 | 234 | #837 | — | — |
| 1994 | 262 | #775 | — | — |
| 1993 | 296 | #721 | — | — |
| 1992 | 267 | #773 | — | — |
| 1991 | 285 | #728 | — | — |
| 1990 | 351 | #639 | — | — |
| 1989 | 328 | #639 | — | — |
| 1988 | 207 | #860 | — | — |
| 1987 | 163 | #970 | — | — |
| 1986 | 165 | #955 | — | — |
| 1985 | 188 | #856 | — | — |
| 1984 | 200 | #797 | — | — |
| 1983 | 172 | #882 | — | — |
| 1982 | 156 | #950 | — | — |
| 1981 | 153 | #958 | — | — |
| 1980 | 161 | #929 | — | — |
| 1979 | 167 | #895 | — | — |
| 1978 | 144 | #964 | — | — |
| 1977 | 152 | #923 | — | — |
| 1976 | 109 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,276 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,955 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,990 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,574 | — | — |
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).