Dani
Dani was given to 364 girls in 2025, #747 among girls’ names; 11,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Dani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 7 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dani is “a diminutive of the female given name Danielle and of its variant forms.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Daniel; a rare spelling variant of Danny.”
/ˈdæni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dani?
#747 among girls’ names, 2025
Dani rose from #1,033 in 2015 to #747 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.23 per 1,000.
462 babies in 2022, the peak
Dani peaked in 2022, when 462 babies were given it (432 girls, #674 among girls’ names). The 389 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 364 | #747 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 420 | #680 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 364 | #773 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 432 | #674 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 389 | #732 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 337 | #803 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 311 | #861 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 284 | #939 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 246 | #1,046 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 244 | #1,070 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 259 | #1,033 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,041 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 232 | #1,069 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 233 | #1,072 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 210 | #1,165 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 212 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,065 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 212 | #1,194 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 162 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,630 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,619 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,626 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,644 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,848 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,733 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,477 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,386 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,644 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,503 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 95 | #1,583 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,413 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,268 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,303 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,297 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,662 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,568 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,423 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 88 | #1,409 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,359 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,316 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 64 | #1,522 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 102 | #1,105 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,192 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,325 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,530 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,361 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 91 | #1,120 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,315 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 63 | #1,391 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,377 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,251 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 60 | #1,433 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 64 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 115 | #963 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 168 | #771 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 137 | #845 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,870 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,758 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,424 Americans recorded as Dani, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 364 girls and 25 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dani, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 11,424 Americans ever recorded as Dani. The median Dani alive today is 18 years old; half are between 7 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 11,724 people named Dani (9,613 women and girls, 2,111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dani rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 892 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,470 |
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 Dani born?
The states with the most babies named Dani are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #805 | 0.9× |
| California | 33 | #882 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 19 | #228 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 15 | #683 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #507 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,131 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 13 | #525 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 13 | #343 | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 13 | #204 | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #351 | 0.8× |
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 Dani 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 320,769 babies since 1880, Dani is the fourth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 389 of their 1,851 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
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 Dani
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 Dani and names like it
- Compare Dani and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDani peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dani since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Dani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.