Daniya
Daniya was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,280 among girls’ names; 1,603 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Daniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daniya?
#5,280 among girls’ names, 2025
Daniya fell from #2,819 in 2015 to #5,280 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 14.9 per million.
119 babies in 2007, the peak
Daniya peaked in 2007, when 119 girls were given it, #1,794 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,280 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,186 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,898 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,821 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,530 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,027 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,860 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,799 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,162 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,423 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,819 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,620 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,137 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,521 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,030 | 54.6 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,962 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,921 | 59.3 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,969 | 56.6 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,794 | 61.9 |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,835 | 58.4 |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,993 | 51.4 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,157 | 45.2 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,415 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,824 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,239 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,001 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,977 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,653 | 6.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,835 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daniya, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,603 Americans ever recorded as Daniya. The median Daniya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,153 people named Daniya (1,149 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,432 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 521 |
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 Daniya born?
The states with the most babies named Daniya are Illinois, Florida and Georgia, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 142 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 91 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 41 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 38 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 35 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Daniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daniya is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1996 it was given 2.1 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 Daniya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Daniya?
Daniya is a less common spelling of Dania: SSA has recorded 1,603 Daniya and 8,823 Dania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 301,835 babies since 1880, Daniya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 1,777 babies (1.4%), the seventh 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 Daniya
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 Daniya and names like it
- Compare Daniya and DaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaniya peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Daniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.