Dannica
Dannica was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 444 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dannica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dannica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,115, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 2007, the peak
Dannica peaked in 2007, when 36 girls were given it, #4,232 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,115 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,794 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,572 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,112 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,321 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,301 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,218 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,888 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,884 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,366 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 34 | #4,475 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,232 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,604 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,027 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,404 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,643 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,995 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,938 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,694 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,661 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,835 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,944 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,243 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,160 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,998 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,856 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,903 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,517 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,417 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,081 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,665 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,165 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,340 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,033 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,770 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,295 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dannica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dannica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dannica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dannica, and how old are they?
An estimated 438 Americans named Dannica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 438 people named Dannica (436 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 439 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 Dannica?
Dannica is a less common spelling of Danica: SSA has recorded 444 Dannica and 16,522 Danica since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 29,209 babies since 1880, Dannica is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 196 babies recorded by SSA was a Dannica (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 Dannica
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 Dannica and names like it
- Compare Dannica and DanicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDannica peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dannica since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Dannica.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dannica alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.