Dann
Dann was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 2,234 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,720 Americans named Dann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,571, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
116 babies in 1957, the peak
Dann peaked in 1957, when 116 babies were given it (45 girls, #1,617 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,244 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,571 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,069 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,563 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,937 | 5 | #9,085 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #9,004 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,680 | 5 | #8,667 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,448 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,646 | 5 | #8,375 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,834 | 7 | #6,351 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #8,572 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,164 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,252 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,083 | 10 | #4,108 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,007 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,211 | 6 | #5,628 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,010 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,639 | 6 | #5,647 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,364 | 6 | #5,671 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,230 | 12 | #3,399 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,509 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,263 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,950 | 6 | #5,056 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,398 | 6 | #4,929 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,230 | 10 | #3,370 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,701 | 8 | #3,770 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,580 | 12 | #2,850 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,491 | 20 | #2,068 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,244 | 21 | #1,948 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,263 | 17 | #2,061 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,892 | 18 | #1,906 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,644 | 11 | #2,503 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,069 | 23 | #1,621 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,861 | 19 | #1,819 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,637 | 27 | #1,513 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,673 | 25 | #1,596 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,558 | 29 | #1,457 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,843 | 33 | #1,389 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,748 | 49 | #1,118 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,921 | 42 | #1,201 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,124 | 61 | #970 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,617 | 71 | #902 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,763 | 65 | #925 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,116 | 61 | #957 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,992 | 43 | #1,138 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,710 | 31 | #1,361 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,423 | 36 | #1,228 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,600 | 32 | #1,307 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,360 | 23 | #1,544 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,642 | 39 | #1,130 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,725 | 27 | #1,405 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,370 | 22 | #1,611 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,067 | 19 | #1,650 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,741 | 22 | #1,417 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,975 | 16 | #1,755 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,881 | 11 | #2,308 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,216 | 7 | #2,993 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,639 | 6 | #3,219 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,202 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,851 | 5 | #3,594 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,929 | 6 | #3,246 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,885 | 5 | #3,630 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,228 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,361 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,327 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,234 Americans recorded as Dann, 51% are girls and 49% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dann, and how old are they?
1,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 2,234 Americans ever recorded as Dann. The median Dann alive today is 64 years old; half are between 56 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 2,397 people named Dann (1,318 women and girls, 1,079 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,861 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dann rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 953 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 526 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 161 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22 |
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 Dann born?
The states with the most babies named Dann are Texas, California and Michigan, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 250 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 8 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Dann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dann is most over-represented in Texas: since 1927 it was given 1.8 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 Dann 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,563 babies since 1880, Dann is the most given (49% 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 Dann
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 Dann and names like it
- Compare Dann and DaneenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDann peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dann since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Dann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.