Danesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danesha has been given to 1,291 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1994, with 129 recorded.
Babies named Danesha, 2013
1 in 608,000
Danesha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Danesha?
Danesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,196 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Danesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daneshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danesha was born before 1994 — so the typical Danesha is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 55.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,291
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (722).
Is Danesha 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 1994 (129)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.0% average annual change
Spellings of Danesha
Danesha is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 64.2% against Danesha's 0.32%.
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 Danesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Danesha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 283,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Maryland1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 6Alabama1 in —
- 7California1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Danesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Danesha around the world
Where Danesha 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.
- Canada1994–1994#2,260in 1994
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Danesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Danesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Danesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.