Danice
Danice was last recorded in 2002, when 6 babies were given it; 695 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,014, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1954, the peak
Danice peaked in 1954, when 27 girls were given it, #2,034 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #14,014 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,934 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,938 | 5.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,192 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,929 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,935 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,202 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,679 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,752 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,466 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,155 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,985 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,814 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,030 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,395 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,292 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,617 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,546 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,398 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,295 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,789 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,939 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,378 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,322 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,038 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,618 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,180 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,975 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,812 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,651 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,342 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,370 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,558 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,166 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,727 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,659 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,675 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,482 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,527 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,690 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,408 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,496 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,843 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,072 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,034 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,310 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,598 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,599 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,473 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,641 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,782 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,790 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,066 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,740 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,288 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,563 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,638 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,958 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,470 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,516 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,290 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,222 | 13.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danice, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Danice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 47 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 645 people named Danice (630 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 597 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 28,638 babies since 1880, Danice is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 196 babies recorded by SSA was a Danice (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 Danice
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 Danice and names like it
- Compare Danice and DanicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDanice peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danice since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Danice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Danice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.