Danica
Danica was given to 127 girls in 2025, #1,634 among girls’ names; 16,522 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,200 Americans named Danica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danica mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danica is “a female given name from the Slavic languages.”
From Slavic female given name, from the Slavic name for the Morning Star (an aspect of the planet Venus).
/ˈdænɪkə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danica?
#1,634 among girls’ names, 2025
Danica fell from #708 in 2015 to #1,634 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.08 per 1,000.
1,109 babies in 2007, the peak
Danica peaked in 2007, when 1,109 girls were given it, #307 among girls’ names. The 127 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,634 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,534 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,309 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,075 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 203 | #1,158 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 226 | #1,097 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 263 | #995 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 314 | #871 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 325 | #867 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 403 | #708 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 553 | #558 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 524 | #558 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 599 | #509 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 647 | #459 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 737 | #425 | 0.41 |
| 2009 | 861 | #379 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 991 | #336 | 0.52 |
| 2007 | 1,109 | #307 | 0.58 |
| 2006 | 935 | #353 | 0.49 |
| 2005 | 465 | #611 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 204 | #1,117 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 172 | #1,228 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 173 | #1,186 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,349 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 192 | #1,073 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,159 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,135 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,079 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 234 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 262 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 296 | #720 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 267 | #771 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 285 | #728 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 351 | #638 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 328 | #638 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 207 | #860 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 163 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 165 | #955 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 188 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 200 | #797 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 172 | #882 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 156 | #950 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 153 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 161 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 167 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 144 | #964 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 152 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 109 | #1,106 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,071 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,108 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,461 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,505 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,614 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,344 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,613 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,609 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,258 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,422 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,572 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danica, and how old are they?
16,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,522 Americans ever recorded as Danica. The median Danica alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 15,391 people named Danica (15,369 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,319 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 103 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,600 |
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 Danica born?
The states with the most babies named Danica are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,427 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,262 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,462 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,045 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #838 | 1.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,881 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,272 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,317 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,075 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,217 | 0.8× |
Where Danica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danica is most over-represented in Washington: since 1916 it was given 1.5 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 Danica 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 29,544 babies since 1880, Danica is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 196 babies (65%), again the most given.
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 Danica
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 Danica and names like it
- Compare Danica and DanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanica peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danica since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Danica.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danica alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.