Girls' name · since 1996
Danyah
Danyah has 222 recorded births since 1996 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2004 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,737 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 222
- born since 1996
- 2000s
- peak decade
Danyah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 222 recorded since 1996.
Danyah has 222 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2020.
- #18,737 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 222 born since 1996
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Danyah ranks #18,737 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 222 born since 1996, peaking in the 2000s.
- #18,737 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 222
- born since 1996
- 2000s
- peak decade
Danyah's 222 recorded births place it above 74.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Danyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Danyah splits its recorded history at 2009: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1996 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2004 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Danyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2020
- Peak year (2004)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Danyah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (107 births, 48% of the file).
2000s was Danyah's strongest decade.
107 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Danyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 18
1990s
18 births
- 2000s
2000s
107 births
- 2010s
2010s
90 births
- 2020s 7
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 107 births (48% of all-time use).
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- Danyah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (107 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Danyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~24 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Danyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.