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Daan

Boys' name

Shortening of Daniël

Daan has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Daan, 2003

1 in 760,000

Daan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daan: meaning, origin, and history

Shortening of Daniël

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daan means

Daan is a shortening of Daniël.

Origin, language, and formation

Daan is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniël.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Daan is pronounced /daːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Daan between 2000 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2000; its best national rank was #10,681 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Daan?

Daan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 395,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daan was born before 2002 — so the typical Daan is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Daan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (5)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,681
2000

Spellings of Daan

Daan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 18.1% against Daan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Daan around the world

Where Daan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1997–2024
    #4,208
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Daan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,681
2000
Peak year
2000
5 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Daan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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