Meaning not yet researched.
Danisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,156 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,156 in 1994; #6,906 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,906 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #1,156.
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Danisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,156 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 154 (1994).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Danisha, making it the 6,906th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8,936 places from #15,842 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 5 girls named Danisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,156, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 154. For comparison, it was #10,322 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danisha in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 2,437 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 988 babies named Danisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 114 US girls were named Danisha; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Danesha (1,291 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daneisha, Danasha and Daniesha 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daneisha (678), Danasha (273), Daniesha (232), Danaisha (202), Danaysha (195), Daneesha (72), Dannisha (64), Danysha (36), Dannesha (20), Daynisha (17), Daynesha (11), Danazha (5), 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 Danisha 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 | 16 | #6,906 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,842 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,444 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,453 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,036 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,332 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,837 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,179 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,394 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,574 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,322 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,073 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,692 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,919 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,582 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,280 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,405 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1994 | 154 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,059 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,250 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,689 | — | — |
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).