Danaya
Danaya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,602 among girls’ names; 796 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danaya?
#9,602 among girls’ names, 2025
Danaya fell from #8,108 in 2015 to #9,602 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
50 babies in 2005, the peak
Danaya peaked in 2005, when 50 girls were given it, #3,131 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,602 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,069 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,601 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,547 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,132 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,702 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,444 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,311 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,874 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,506 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,108 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,255 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,234 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,215 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,833 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,771 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,887 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,471 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,663 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,281 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,131 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,305 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,445 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,469 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,410 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,315 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,608 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,668 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,561 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,840 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,709 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,879 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,342 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,376 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,519 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,450 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,075 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,699 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,027 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,535 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,626 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,419 | 4.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,540 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 786 Americans named Danaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 643 people named Danaya (643 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 310,129 babies since 1880, Danaya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,830 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 Danaya
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 Danaya and names like it
- Compare Danaya and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanaya peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Danaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.