Dannon
Dannon was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 595 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dannon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dannon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,453, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1979, the peak
Dannon peaked in 1979, when 54 babies were given it (41 boys, #1,468 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,453 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,583 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,070 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,612 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,481 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #9,863 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,641 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,217 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #7,703 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 10 | #7,817 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,807 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,267 | 10 | #7,710 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,585 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,123 | 7 | #9,327 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,592 | 5 | #11,723 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 13 | #5,617 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,156 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,920 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,378 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,133 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,699 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,255 | 14 | #4,486 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,836 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,126 | 11 | #5,195 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 11 | #5,163 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 14 | #4,265 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #4,936 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,656 | 5 | #8,450 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 15 | #3,807 | |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,571 | 10 | #4,887 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,861 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 17 | #2,965 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,817 | 16 | #3,023 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,635 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,772 | 7 | #5,087 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 22 | #2,287 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,498 | 13 | #3,327 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,652 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 17 | #2,745 | |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,156 | 41 | #1,468 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 20 | #2,299 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 11 | #3,432 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 9 | #3,772 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #4,024 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #3,901 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,615 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 9 | #3,405 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,055 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,340 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,256 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dannon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 595 Americans recorded as Dannon, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dannon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dannon, and how old are they?
An estimated 567 Americans named Dannon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 575 people named Dannon (162 women and girls, 413 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,103 babies since 1880, Dannon is the second most given (28% 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 Dannon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Roshawn | 1,353 |
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 Dannon and names like it
- Compare Dannon and DayonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDannon peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dannon since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Dannon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dannon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.