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Danette

#15,458 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Daniel

Danette has been given to 10,392 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #15,458 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 501 recorded.

Babies named Danette, 2025

1 in 663,000

Danette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danette: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Daniel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danette means

Danette is a diminutive of Daniel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Danette is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /də.ˈnɛt/ for Danette.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Danette is a diminutive of Daniel. Daniel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,392 girls were recorded with the name Danette between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 501 in 1966; its best national rank was #416 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,464 in 2020 to #15,458 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,080 in 2015 to #15,458 in 2025.

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 Danette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,458
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danette 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danette was born before 1966 — so the typical Danette is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
10,172
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Choose a decade

1960s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (4,394).

Is Danette 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
−4,988
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,994
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,378
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.00%
Peak was 1966 (501)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#416
1966

Spellings of Danette

Danette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 33.1% against Danette's 2.0%.

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 Danette is used

Across 1910–2025, Danette was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 20,213 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,167
  2. 2Montana1 in 5,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 7,692
  4. 4Washington1 in 9,091
  5. 5Iowa1 in 10,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 11,111
  7. 7Oregon1 in 11,111
  8. 8Utah1 in 11,111

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. Danette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danette around the world

Where Danette 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
    2014–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1965–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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.

Danette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Danette. Linked forms have their own page here.

Dannette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Danette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,458
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,994
Best rank ever
#416
1966
Peak year
1966
501 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,392
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Danette

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

DannetteDanikaDanielDanieleDanicaLisetteDanyelleLizetteDanishaArletteDanelleDaniaJosetteNanetteSuzetteDaniyahDanaeDanielaDaniellaDanasiaIvetteBrigitteLinetteColette

Names with a curve like Danette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeannLauriDanitaJuliTamelaShellieTamraDawnaLesaLorieMarybethFelecia

Sibling names for Danette

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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