Danais

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Danais has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2023, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Danais, 2023

1 in 414,000

Danais over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Danais?

Danais had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danais 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danaiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danais was born before 2023 — so the typical Danais is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Danais 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 2023 (8)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,423
2023

Spellings of Danais

Danais is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 58.2% against Danais'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.

Danais around the world

Where Danais 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.

  • France
    1999–2018
    #7,135
    in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Danais by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,423
2023
Peak year
2023
8 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danais

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

Sibling names for Danais

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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