Dannah
Dannah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,997 among girls’ names; 620 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dannah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dannah?
#8,997 among girls’ names, 2025
Dannah fell from #8,109 in 2015 to #8,997 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.8 per million.
26 babies in 1999, the peak
Dannah peaked in 1999, when 26 girls were given it, #4,338 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,997 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,066 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,441 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,549 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,811 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,105 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,255 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,391 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,507 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,109 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #6,517 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,067 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,307 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,928 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,657 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,155 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,996 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,139 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,432 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,999 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,373 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,660 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,412 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,901 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,679 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,338 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,731 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,940 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,335 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,060 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,777 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,319 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,220 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,195 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,628 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,745 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,907 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,253 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,032 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,938 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,496 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,564 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,544 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,091 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,940 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,211 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,571 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,253 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dannah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dannah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dannah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dannah, and how old are they?
An estimated 609 Americans named Dannah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 609 people named Dannah (604 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Dannah?
Dannah is a less common spelling of Dana: SSA has recorded 620 Dannah and 246,842 Dana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 309,965 babies since 1880, Dannah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,473 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Dannah
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 Dannah and names like it
- Compare Dannah and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDannah peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dannah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Dannah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dannah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.