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Danai

#8,996 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Danai has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #8,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Danai, 2025

1 in 301,000

Danai over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danai: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danai means

Danai has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Danai

One of the source’s documented entries for Danai records a meaning of call, summon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 426 girls were recorded with the name Danai between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,503 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,390 in 2020 to #8,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,633 in 2015 to #8,996 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Danai between 1975 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,637 in 1975.

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.

How common is Danai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danai was born before 2009 — so the typical Danai is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
426
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Choose a decade

2000s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Danai 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
−1,314
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,606
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+637
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 2022 (23)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,503
2022

Spellings of Danai

Danai is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 28.4% against Danai's 0.03%.

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.

Where Danai is used

Across 1910–2025, Danai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Danai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danai around the world

Where Danai 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
    2002–2023
    #2,928
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danai by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,606
Best rank ever
#5,503
2022
Peak year
2022
23 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
426
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,637
1975
Peak year
1975
5 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danai

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

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Sibling names for Danai

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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