Daneisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Daneisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 678 babies named Daneisha between 1979 and 2016, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Daneisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 66 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Daneisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 378 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Daneisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Daneisha in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Daneisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 678 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.