Danesha
Danesha was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 1,291 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Danesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 28 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,069, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
129 babies in 1994, the peak
Danesha peaked in 1994, when 129 girls were given it, #1,313 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,069 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,492 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,429 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,692 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,083 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,617 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,431 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,862 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,083 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,659 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 35 | #3,745 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,645 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,532 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,225 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,050 | 40.7 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,203 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,060 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,053 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 129 | #1,313 | 72.2 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,697 | 48.6 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,946 | 38.5 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,294 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,647 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,993 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,814 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,619 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,922 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,178 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,934 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,580 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,918 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,959 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,634 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,668 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,278 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,997 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,288 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,891 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,055 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danesha, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,291 Americans ever recorded as Danesha. The median Danesha alive today is 32 years old; half are between 28 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 947 people named Danesha (946 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 744 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 421 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 5,566 babies since 1880, Danesha is the second most given (23% 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 Danesha
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 Danesha and names like it
- Compare Danesha and DanishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDanesha peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Danesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.