Danna
Danna was given to 787 girls in 2025, #394 among girls’ names; 25,240 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,800 Americans named Danna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danna is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “of Anna” (D'Anna).
As a surname from French D’Anna (“of Anna”). The given name is more probably a feminine form coined from Dan or Daniel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danna?
#394 among girls’ names, 2025
Danna rose from #521 in 2015 to #394 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.34 to 0.49 per 1,000.
1,231 babies in 2010, the peak
Danna peaked in 2010, when 1,231 babies were given it (1,226 girls, #267 among girls’ names). The 787 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 787 | #394 | 0.49 |
| 2024 | 1,003 | #307 | 0.62 |
| 2023 | 1,056 | #295 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | 899 | #354 | 0.55 |
| 2021 | 843 | #369 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 627 | #487 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 621 | #507 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 594 | #527 | 0.35 |
| 2017 | 581 | #533 | 0.34 |
| 2016 | 610 | #510 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 602 | #521 | 0.34 |
| 2014 | 564 | #550 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 650 | #473 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 625 | #490 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 876 | #365 | 0.50 |
| 2010 | 1,226 | #267 | 0.69 |
| 2009 | 816 | #390 | 0.44 |
| 2008 | 758 | #424 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 458 | #647 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 579 | #522 | 0.30 |
| 2005 | 550 | #527 | 0.30 |
| 2004 | 426 | #643 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 310 | #798 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 276 | #840 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,195 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,603 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,598 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,479 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,503 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,845 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,743 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,653 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,689 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 101 | #1,534 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,277 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,289 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 135 | #1,132 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,150 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,332 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,199 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 121 | #1,115 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,270 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 136 | #1,051 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 137 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 130 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 143 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 113 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 130 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 157 | #850 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 168 | #806 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 168 | #788 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 161 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 251 | #649 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 230 | #687 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 237 | #645 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 236 | #625 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 210 | #662 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 238 | #615 | 0.14 |
| 1965 | 198 | #700 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 263 | #623 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 229 | #667 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 204 | #721 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 194 | #749 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 184 | #753 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 190 | #736 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 153 | #813 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 170 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 153 | #802 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 126 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 100 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 120 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 125 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 101 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 110 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 108 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 118 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 119 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 119 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 80 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 87 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 59 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 48 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,731 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,315 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,721 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,610 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,808 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,573 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danna has been given almost only to girls: 134 boys in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danna, and how old are they?
23,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 25,240 Americans ever recorded as Danna. The median Danna alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 17,337 people named Danna (17,102 women and girls, 235 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 241 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,380 |
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 Danna born?
The states with the most babies named Danna are Texas, California and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #285 | 2.1× |
| California | 98 | #334 | 1.4× |
| New York | 68 | #249 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 57 | #322 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 44 | #186 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 29 | #387 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #385 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 24 | #340 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 21 | #243 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 20 | #501 | 0.6× |
Where Danna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danna is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 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 Danna 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 333,844 babies since 1880, Danna is the second most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 787 of their 2,268 babies (35%), the 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 Danna
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 Danna and names like it
- Compare Danna and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDanna peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danna since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Danna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Danna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Danna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.