Danaisha
Danaisha was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danaisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danaisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,497, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 2003, the peak
Danaisha peaked in 2003, when 25 girls were given it, #4,975 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,497 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,271 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,637 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,692 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,194 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,956 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,566 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,025 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,370 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,975 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 | #8,989 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,543 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,677 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,334 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,652 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,439 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,187 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,793 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,137 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,850 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,743 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danaisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danaisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danaisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danaisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Danaisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Danaisha (186 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,466 babies since 1880, Danaisha is the sixth most given (3.7% of them).
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 Danaisha
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 Danaisha and names like it
- Compare Danaisha and DanishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanaisha peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danaisha since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Danaisha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danaisha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.