Dannette
Dannette was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 2,155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Dannette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 51 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dannette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dannette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,934, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1965, the peak
Dannette peaked in 1965, when 102 girls were given it, #1,034 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,934 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,364 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,019 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,679 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,253 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,195 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,797 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,830 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,203 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,141 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 13 | #6,682 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,460 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,233 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,838 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,895 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,664 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,436 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,863 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,354 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,919 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,640 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,884 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,489 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,120 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,781 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,871 | 33.4 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,175 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,805 | 33.4 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,462 | 44.6 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,435 | 44.7 |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,408 | 45.1 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,333 | 45.2 |
| 1969 | 81 | #1,244 | 48.0 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,212 | 49.4 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,283 | 43.0 |
| 1966 | 91 | #1,103 | 53.8 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,034 | 57.8 |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,255 | 40.6 |
| 1963 | 86 | #1,181 | 44.6 |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,305 | 36.6 |
| 1961 | 85 | #1,199 | 42.1 |
| 1960 | 79 | #1,227 | 39.1 |
| 1959 | 62 | #1,360 | 30.6 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,340 | 30.8 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,655 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,455 | 26.4 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,887 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,129 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,028 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,278 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,969 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,012 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,431 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,181 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,470 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,500 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,129 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,158 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,289 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,564 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,311 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,491 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,452 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,886 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,319 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dannette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dannette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dannette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dannette, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,155 Americans ever recorded as Dannette. The median Dannette alive today is 58 years old; half are between 51 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,764 people named Dannette (1,761 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 668 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 921 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27 |
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 Dannette born?
The states with the most babies named Dannette are California, Illinois and Texas, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 192 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 69 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Dannette 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 Dannette?
Dannette is a less common spelling of Danette: SSA has recorded 2,155 Dannette and 10,392 Danette since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,690 babies since 1880, Dannette is the second most given (16% 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 Dannette
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 Dannette and names like it
- Compare Dannette and DanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDannette peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dannette since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Dannette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dannette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.