Danah
Danah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,995 among girls’ names; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Danah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danah?
#8,995 among girls’ names, 2025
Danah fell from #5,507 in 2015 to #8,995 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 6.8 per million.
32 babies in 2012, the peak
Danah peaked in 2012, when 32 girls were given it, #4,517 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,995 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,344 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,726 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,444 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,356 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,462 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,710 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,826 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,342 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,173 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,507 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,924 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,171 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,517 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,926 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,438 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,936 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,181 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,151 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,423 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,995 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,932 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,955 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,455 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,867 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,026 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,267 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,181 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,560 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,615 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,554 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,716 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,467 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,776 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,837 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,338 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,566 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,687 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,119 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,220 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,672 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,893 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,899 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,916 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,547 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,883 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,463 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,984 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,994 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,838 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,802 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,507 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,664 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,119 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,928 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,230 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,038 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,575 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,588 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,602 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,951 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,967 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,260 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,419 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danah, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,050 Americans ever recorded as Danah. The median Danah alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 916 people named Danah (902 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 279 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 216 |
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).
How common is the spelling Danah?
Danah is a less common spelling of Dana: SSA has recorded 1,050 Danah and 246,842 Dana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 319,053 babies since 1880, Danah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,809 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Danah
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 Danah and names like it
- Compare Danah and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDanah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Danah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.