Danney
Danney was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 517 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,175, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1954, the peak
Danney peaked in 1954, when 29 boys were given it, #1,413 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #7,175 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,648 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,494 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,234 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,057 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,267 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,060 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,504 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,853 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,368 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 | #3,777 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,319 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,502 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,200 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,985 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,059 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,815 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,260 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,057 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,218 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,964 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,844 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,028 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,737 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,413 | 14.2 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,432 | 14.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,955 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,738 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,369 | 15.6 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,770 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,721 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,798 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,706 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,280 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,182 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,017 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,287 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,613 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,203 | 5.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,631 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Danney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danney has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danney, and how old are they?
An estimated 349 Americans named Danney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 393 people named Danney (31 women and girls, 362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 Danney?
Danney is a less common spelling of Danny: SSA has recorded 517 Danney and 288,341 Danny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 341,331 babies since 1880, Danney is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 861 babies recorded by SSA was a Danney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Danney
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 Danney and names like it
- Compare Danney and DannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDanney peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danney since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Danney.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Danney alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.