Danya
Danya was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,282 among girls’ names; 3,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,530 Americans named Danya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danya?
#4,282 among girls’ names, 2025
Danya fell from #2,940 in 2015 to #4,282 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.1 to 20.5 per million.
126 babies in 2007, the peak
Danya peaked in 2007, when 126 girls were given it, #1,728 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,282 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,840 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,299 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,046 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,120 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,028 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,346 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,215 | 29.4 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,574 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,745 | 35.6 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,940 | 33.1 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,422 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,516 | 40.5 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,342 | 45.4 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,440 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,458 | 42.8 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,036 | 55.0 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,970 | 56.6 |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,728 | 65.5 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,052 | 50.5 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,502 | 37.3 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,102 | 46.8 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,147 | 44.3 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,987 | 49.0 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,903 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,431 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,152 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,766 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,051 | 39.6 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,020 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,006 | 38.7 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,142 | 35.3 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,109 | 35.4 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,104 | 34.7 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,793 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,740 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,417 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,493 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,039 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,350 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,053 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,309 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,205 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,712 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,918 | 33.6 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,843 | 35.5 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,348 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,830 | 35.9 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,641 | 41.7 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,733 | 37.5 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,067 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,651 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,181 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,179 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,145 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,861 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,062 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,438 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,386 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,061 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,352 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,018 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,846 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,597 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,636 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,538 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,352 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,409 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,610 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,928 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,832 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,258 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,836 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,725 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,684 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,400 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,182 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,856 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,728 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,130 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,181 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,290 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,812 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,114 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,493 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,505 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danya has been given almost only to girls: 29 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danya, and how old are they?
3,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,678 Americans ever recorded as Danya. The median Danya alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 3,310 people named Danya (3,212 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 635 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 783 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
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 Danya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,209 | 1.2× |
Where Danya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danya is most over-represented in California: since 1939 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Danya 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 320,769 babies since 1880, Danya is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 1,851 babies (1.8%), again the seventh most given.
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 Danya
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 Danya and names like it
- Compare Danya and DanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDanya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Danya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Danya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.