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Danan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Danan has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1977, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Danan, 1997

1 in 518,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danan means

Danan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Danan is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Danan between 1971 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1977; its best national rank was #4,241 in 1977.

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 Danan?

Danan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 518,000
7 of 3,624,676 births
Among boys only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
358,920 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danan 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 1997 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 358,920 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danan was born before 1984 — so the typical Danan is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Danan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (8)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,241
1977

Spellings of Danan

Danan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 20.2% against Danan'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.

Danan around the world

Where Danan 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.

  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danan 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,241
1977
Peak year
1977
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danan

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

DanyeDanisDanekDangerDanenDanyaCananDanilDanylDanikDanyloDanniDandyDanariRoananDanilaDannyeDanoDanianDangelKaananRennanDandraDantay

Sibling names for Danan

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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