Danica Girl
How popular is Danica?
#1,631 girl name in 2025
127 baby girls were named Danica in the US in 2025, making it the 1631st most popular girl name.
Danica popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,631 for girls (▼ 78 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 127 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-68% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #708 in 2015, #1,158 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (1,109 girls) |
| Highest rank | #307 in 2007 |
| First recorded | 1916 |
| 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 |
Danica counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Danica family of names ranked #1,022 for girls in 2025 (#991 the year before), with 196 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Danica | 127 | 65% |
| Danika | 69 | 35% |
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 Danica is most popular
Babies named Danica per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.2 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (135 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (34 girls)
Danica by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,415 |
| 1950s | 42 | #4,201 |
| 1960s | 290 | #1,607 |
| 1970s | 1,051 | #894 |
| 1980s | 1,893 | #638 |
| 1990s | 2,382 | #637 |
| 2000s | 5,244 | #307 |
| 2010s | 4,591 | #425 |
| 2020s | 1,019 | #1,075 |
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Questions
- Is Danica a boy or girl name?
- Danica is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Danica were girls.
- How popular is the name Danica?
- 127 baby girls were named Danica in the US in 2025, making it the 1631st most popular girl name.
- When was Danica most popular?
- Danica peaked in 2007, when 1,109 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #307 in 2007.
- How many people are named Danica?
- 16,522 babies have been named Danica in the US since 1880. We estimate about 16,257 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 19.
- Where is Danica most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Danica was most common in New Jersey, at 0.2 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.