Danisha
Danisha was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,904 among girls’ names; 2,437 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Danisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danisha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danisha?
#6,904 among girls’ names, 2025
Danisha rose from #10,317 in 2015 to #6,904 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 10.0 per million.
154 babies in 1994, the peak
Danisha peaked in 1994, when 154 girls were given it, #1,153 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,904 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,837 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,439 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,448 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,031 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,327 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,833 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,175 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,390 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,571 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,317 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,071 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,690 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,915 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,577 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,278 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,594 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,569 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,402 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,765 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,746 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,450 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,140 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,500 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,663 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,482 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,206 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,925 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,100 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,511 | 60.5 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,785 | 45.5 |
| 1994 | 154 | #1,153 | 86.2 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,361 | 66.9 |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,274 | 72.7 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,675 | 46.9 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,632 | 47.9 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,480 | 53.2 |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,567 | 47.2 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,842 | 36.2 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,915 | 33.8 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,141 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,084 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,964 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,226 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,347 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,354 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,191 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,580 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,526 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,613 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,181 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,025 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,019 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,057 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,197 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,249 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,687 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danisha, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,437 Americans ever recorded as Danisha. The median Danisha alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,010 people named Danisha (2,004 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 257 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 163 |
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 Danisha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,238 | 1.4× |
Where Danisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danisha is most over-represented in Florida: since 1969 it was given 1.4 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 Danisha 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 5,566 babies since 1880, Danisha is the most given (44% 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 Danisha
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 Danisha and names like it
- Compare Danisha and DaneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDanisha peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Danisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Danisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.