Dany
Dany was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,256 among boys’ names; 1,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Dany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dany mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Dany is “diminutive of Daniel a male given name, equivalent to English Danny”
Also “diminutive of Danielle a female given name, equivalent to English Dani”
Clipping of Daniel and Danielle.
/da.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dany?
#3,256 among boys’ names, 2025
Dany rose from #3,532 in 2015 to #3,256 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 21.1 per million.
46 babies in 2008, the peak
Dany peaked in 2008, when 46 boys were given it, #2,690 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,256 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,342 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,906 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,476 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,084 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,084 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,504 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,110 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,324 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,014 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,532 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,386 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,200 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,725 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,063 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,881 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,173 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,690 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,728 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,793 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,098 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,468 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,455 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,890 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,240 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,826 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,606 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,723 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,178 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,310 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,316 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,699 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,950 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,023 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,672 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,333 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,650 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,553 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,369 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,449 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,098 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,307 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,670 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,525 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,219 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,746 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,147 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,957 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,908 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,059 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,026 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,172 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,771 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,546 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,506 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,855 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,115 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,305 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,348 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,100 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,374 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,577 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,723 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,341 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,871 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,679 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,831 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,808 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,975 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,505 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,716 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,794 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,804 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,440 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,634 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,541 Americans recorded as Dany, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dany, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,541 Americans ever recorded as Dany. The median Dany alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 4,158 people named Dany (863 women and girls, 3,295 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 109 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 491 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 423 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dany born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,339 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dany with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 330,226 babies since 1880, Dany is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 823 babies (4.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Dany
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 Dany and names like it
- Compare Dany and DannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDany peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dany since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Dany: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.