Girls' name · since 1964
Danean
Danean has 127 recorded births since 1964 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1964 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #24,470 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 127
- born since 1964
- 1960s
- peak decade
Danean is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 127 have been recorded since 1964.
Danean has 127 recorded births among girls since 1964, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1964 to 1997.
- #24,470 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 127 born since 1964
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Danean ranks #24,470 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 127 born since 1964, peaking in the 1960s.
- #24,470 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 127
- born since 1964
- 1960s
- peak decade
Danean's 127 recorded births place it above 66.07% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Danean's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Danean's full recorded timeline at 1972, 39% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 61% in the earlier half -- the name was more prevalent in its earlier era than it is today. Its quietest year on record was 1973, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1964 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Danean popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1964–1997
- Peak year (1964)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 34 years of records
Danean by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (64 births, 50% of the file).
1960s was Danean's strongest decade.
64 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Danean births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
64 births
- 1970s
1970s
47 births
- 1980s 11
1980s
11 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 64 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Danean's decade-level peak was the 1960s (64 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Danean: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~33 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1964–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Danean draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.