Dannye
Dannye was last recorded in 1962, when 5 babies were given it; 64 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dannye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dannye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,176, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1947, the peak
Dannye peaked in 1947, when 20 babies were given it (13 boys, #2,180 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,176 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,613 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #3,984 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,006 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,059 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,441 | 13 | #2,180 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,742 | 6 | #3,063 |
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 Dannye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 64 Americans recorded as Dannye, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dannye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dannye, and how old are they?
An estimated 38 Americans named Dannye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Dannye (60 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 340,878 babies since 1880, Dannye is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 861 babies recorded by SSA was a Dannye (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.
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