Danuta
Danuta was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 142 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danuta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danuta mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Danuta is “a female given name”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
/daˈnu.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danuta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,935, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1973, the peak
Danuta peaked in 1973, when 11 girls were given it, #4,942 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #13,935 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,341 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,360 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,635 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,772 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,245 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,385 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,942 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,182 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,596 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,745 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,581 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,378 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,589 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,603 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,998 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,840 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,225 | 4.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,170 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,576 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,582 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danuta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danuta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danuta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danuta, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Danuta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 47 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,965 people named Danuta (3,958 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30.3 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,733 babies since 1880, Danuta is the fourth most given (1.6% 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 Danuta
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 Danuta and names like it
- Compare Danuta and DanitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDanuta peaked in 1973.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danuta since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Danuta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Danuta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Danuta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.