Danae
Danae was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,417 among girls’ names; 7,449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,250 Americans named Danae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danae is “a female given name.”
/ˈdænə.iː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danae?
#2,417 among girls’ names, 2025
Danae fell from #2,198 in 2015 to #2,417 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.2 to 46.0 per million.
212 babies in 2001, the peak
Danae peaked in 2001, when 212 girls were given it, #1,010 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,417 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,763 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,887 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,699 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,873 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,820 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,165 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,228 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,912 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #2,198 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,960 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,715 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,630 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,447 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,461 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 182 | #1,293 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 181 | #1,253 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 200 | #1,141 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 196 | #1,123 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 202 | #1,056 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 212 | #1,010 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 171 | #1,169 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,231 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 144 | #1,259 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 157 | #1,167 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 155 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,088 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,163 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 202 | #952 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 211 | #911 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 191 | #974 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 164 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 157 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 124 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 119 | #1,145 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,202 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 122 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,210 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,504 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,266 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,640 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,002 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,714 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,222 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,808 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,883 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,087 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,713 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,753 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,225 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,238 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,527 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,641 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,854 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,458 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danae has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danae, and how old are they?
7,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,449 Americans ever recorded as Danae. The median Danae alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 6,353 people named Danae (6,310 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 181 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 757 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Danae born?
The states with the most babies named Danae are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,419 | 0.9× |
| California | 10 | #1,984 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,951 | 0.8× |
Where Danae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danae is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Danae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 320,769 babies since 1880, Danae is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 1,851 babies (4.0%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Danae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Danae and names like it
- Compare Danae and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanae peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danae since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Danae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.