Dhani
Dhani was last recorded in 2023, when 14 babies were given it; 341 Americans have been recorded with it between 1998 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dhani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dhani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,125, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2010, the peak
Dhani peaked in 2010, when 44 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,389 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,879 | 8 | #9,125 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,608 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,115 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,263 | 10 | #7,743 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,603 | 6 | #11,104 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,933 | 6 | #11,071 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,138 | 12 | #6,771 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,447 | 14 | #6,068 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,545 | 18 | #5,026 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 20 | #4,732 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #9,903 | 13 | #6,323 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,383 | 32 | #3,389 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,164 | 31 | #3,493 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,272 | 5 | #13,017 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,003 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 20 | #4,358 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,122 | 10 | #7,105 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 17 | #4,655 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,785 | 5 | #10,024 |
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 Dhani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 341 Americans recorded as Dhani, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dhani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dhani, and how old are they?
An estimated 338 Americans named Dhani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 12 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 365 people named Dhani (133 women and girls, 232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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).
How common is the spelling Dhani?
Dhani is a less common spelling of Danny: SSA has recorded 341 Dhani and 288,341 Danny since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 325,017 babies since 1880, Dhani is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 804 babies recorded by SSA was a Dhani (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dhani
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 Dhani and names like it
- Compare Dhani and DannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDhani peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dhani since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Dhani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dhani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.