Daniyah
Daniyah was given to 36 girls in 2025, #3,999 among girls’ names; 1,698 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Daniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daniyah?
#3,999 among girls’ names, 2025
Daniyah fell from #2,628 in 2015 to #3,999 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 22.4 per million.
125 babies in 2010, the peak
Daniyah peaked in 2010, when 125 girls were given it, #1,688 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,999 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,057 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,196 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,985 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,791 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,409 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,827 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,513 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,721 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,913 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,628 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,276 | 45.9 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,920 | 59.3 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,195 | 48.8 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,106 | 51.7 |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,688 | 70.3 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,960 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,981 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,135 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,274 | 44.2 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,410 | 39.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,641 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,745 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,746 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,717 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,151 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,679 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,677 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daniyah, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,698 Americans ever recorded as Daniyah. The median Daniyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,040 people named Daniyah (1,035 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 765 |
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 Daniyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #804 | 1.0× |
Where Daniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daniyah is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1998 it was given 2.5 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 Daniyah 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 Daniyah?
Daniyah is a less common spelling of Dania: SSA has recorded 1,698 Daniyah and 8,823 Dania since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,773 babies since 1880, Daniyah is the third most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 363 babies (9.9%), 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 Daniyah
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 Daniyah and names like it
- Compare Daniyah and DaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDaniyah peaked in 2010.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Daniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.