Danae Girl
How popular is Danae?
#2,410 girl name in 2025
74 baby girls were named Danae in the US in 2025, making it the 2410th most popular girl name.
Danae popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,410 for girls (▼ 1069 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 74 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-14% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,194 in 2015, #1,872 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2001 (212 girls) |
| Highest rank | #911 in 1991 |
| First recorded | 1947 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Danae counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Danae family of names ranked #1,609 for girls in 2025 (#1,060 the year before), with 95 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Danae | 74 | 78% |
| Dannae | 21 | 22% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Danae is most popular
Babies named Danae per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (112 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (74 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (34 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.1 per 1,000 (14 girls)
Danae by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 16 | #4,649 |
| 1950s | 122 | #2,346 |
| 1960s | 269 | #1,711 |
| 1970s | 550 | #1,265 |
| 1980s | 1,293 | #997 |
| 1990s | 1,699 | #911 |
| 2000s | 1,815 | #1,010 |
| 2010s | 987 | #1,629 |
| 2020s | 692 | #1,341 |
Girl names about as popular as Danae
Questions
- Is Danae a boy or girl name?
- Danae is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Danae were girls.
- How popular is the name Danae?
- 74 baby girls were named Danae in the US in 2025, making it the 2410th most popular girl name.
- When was Danae most popular?
- Danae peaked in 2001, when 212 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #911 in 1991.
- How many people are named Danae?
- 7,449 babies have been named Danae in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,281 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Danae most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Danae was most common in Texas, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.