Meaning not yet researched.
Danya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,641 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,641 in 1977; #4,283 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,283 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,641.
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Danya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,641 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 126 (2007).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Danya, making it the 4,283rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 443 places from #3,840 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 39 girls named Danya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,641, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 126, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,940 in 2015 and #2,685 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danya in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 7 babies. In all, 3,678 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 916 babies named Danya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 422 US girls were named Danya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dana (246,842 babies since 1880), Dania (8,823 babies since 1880), Danny (288,341 babies since 1880) and Dani (11,424 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daneyah 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: Daneyah (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 Danya 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 | 33 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,150 | 8 | #8,012 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,830 | 8 | #4,238 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,641 | 5 | #6,037 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,067 | 8 | #4,029 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,598 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,611 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,929 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,838 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,727 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,402 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,507 | — | — |
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).