Danna Girl
How popular is Danna?
#394 girl name in 2025
787 baby girls were named Danna in the US in 2025, making it the 394th most popular girl name.
Danna popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #394 for girls (▼ 88 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 787 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+31% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #521 in 2015, #487 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2010 (1,226 girls) |
| Highest rank | #267 in 2010 |
| First recorded | 1916 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Danna counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Danna family of names ranked #306 for girls in 2025 (#264 the year before), with 1,070 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Danna | 787 | 74% |
| Dana | 244 | 23% |
| Danai | 11 | 1% |
| Danah | 11 | 1% |
| Dannah | 11 | 1% |
| Danay | 6 | 1% |
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 Danna is most popular
Babies named Danna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 1.3 per 1,000 (227 girls)
- Maryland: 1.2 per 1,000 (129 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.2 per 1,000 (14 girls)
- Texas: 1.1 per 1,000 (879 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.0 per 1,000 (60 girls)
Danna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,415 |
| 1920s | 85 | #2,586 |
| 1930s | 204 | #1,265 |
| 1940s | 824 | #748 |
| 1950s | 1,348 | #735 |
| 1960s | 2,193 | #615 |
| 1970s | 1,651 | #648 |
| 1980s | 1,192 | #1,043 |
| 1990s | 981 | #1,275 |
| 2000s | 4,454 | #390 |
| 2010s | 6,949 | #267 |
| 2020s | 5,215 | #295 |
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Questions
- Is Danna a boy or girl name?
- Danna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Danna were girls.
- How popular is the name Danna?
- 787 baby girls were named Danna in the US in 2025, making it the 394th most popular girl name.
- When was Danna most popular?
- Danna peaked in 2010, when 1,226 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #267 in 2010.
- How many people are named Danna?
- 25,240 babies have been named Danna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 23,966 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Danna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Danna was most common in New Jersey, at 1.3 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.