Danette
Danette was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,458 among girls’ names; 10,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,170 Americans named Danette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 52 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danette?
#15,458 among girls’ names, 2025
Danette fell from #9,080 in 2015 to #15,458 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.1 per million.
501 babies in 1966, the peak
Danette peaked in 1966, when 501 girls were given it, #416 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,470 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,126 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,646 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,464 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,678 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,211 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,898 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,040 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,080 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,509 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,831 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,984 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,367 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,532 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,880 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,294 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,778 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,996 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,084 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,298 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,138 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,302 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,560 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,069 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,131 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,939 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,909 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,264 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,269 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,893 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,551 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,648 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,716 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,217 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,649 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,839 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,498 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 98 | #1,295 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 106 | #1,229 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 107 | #1,228 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 151 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 189 | #791 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 196 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 216 | #686 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 237 | #645 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 224 | #671 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 255 | #606 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 295 | #561 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 379 | #501 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 407 | #493 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 415 | #472 | 0.25 |
| 1968 | 366 | #508 | 0.22 |
| 1967 | 422 | #460 | 0.26 |
| 1966 | 501 | #416 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 458 | #440 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 438 | #463 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 447 | #462 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 446 | #461 | 0.23 |
| 1961 | 450 | #461 | 0.22 |
| 1960 | 451 | #461 | 0.22 |
| 1959 | 401 | #483 | 0.20 |
| 1958 | 364 | #503 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 360 | #499 | 0.18 |
| 1956 | 240 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 181 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 142 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 105 | #920 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,924 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,677 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,572 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,883 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,695 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danette, and how old are they?
9,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 10,392 Americans ever recorded as Danette. The median Danette alive today is 59 years old; half are between 52 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 8,947 people named Danette (8,936 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,486 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,570 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 811 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 212 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
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).
Where are babies named Danette born?
The states with the most babies named Danette are California, Illinois and New York, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,358 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 561 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 512 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 511 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 482 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 479 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 370 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 288 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 255 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Colorado | 246 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Danette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danette is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1930 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Danette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,690 babies since 1880, Danette is the most given (76% 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 Danette
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 Danette and names like it
- Compare Danette and DannetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDanette peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danette since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Danette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Danette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.