Danice
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danice has been given to 695 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 1954, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Danice, 2002
1 in 623,000
Danice 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Danice?
Danice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 623,000
- 6 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 431,748 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Danice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Danices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danice was born before 1961 — so the typical Danice is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 26.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 558
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Danice 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 1954 (27)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Danice
Danice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 33.2% against Danice's 0.04%.
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 Danice is used
Across 1910–2025, Danice was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,768,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Danice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Danice around the world
Where Danice 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 Australia1955–1955#502in 1955
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Danice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Danice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Danice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.