Daneka
Daneka was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 201 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daneka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daneka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,969, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Daneka peaked in 1993, when 18 girls were given it, #5,253 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #15,969 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,582 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,569 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,659 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,453 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,442 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,927 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,139 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,253 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,137 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | #8,751 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,736 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,927 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,496 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,123 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,332 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,391 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,628 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,767 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,031 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,832 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,090 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,715 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,744 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,625 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,482 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daneka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daneka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daneka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daneka, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Daneka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Daneka (190 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 28,637 babies since 1880, Daneka is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 196 babies recorded by SSA was a Daneka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Daneka
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 Daneka and names like it
- Compare Daneka and DanicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaneka peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Daneka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Daneka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.