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Danie

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Diminutive of Daniël

Danie has been given to 815 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1984, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.

Babies named Danie, 2010

1 in 616,000

Danie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Danie over time

In 2025, Danie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19162025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Danie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Daniël

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danie means

Danie is a diminutive of Daniël.

Origin, language, and formation

Danie is used in Afrikaans.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniël.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 543 boys were recorded with the name Danie between 1919 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,958 in 1950.

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Danie between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,022 in 1916.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,316 in 2015 to #15,459 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Danie?

Danie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danie 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danie was born before 1972 — so the typical Danie is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
465
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1980s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Danie 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 1984 (19)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,958
1950

Spellings of Danie

Danie is not the most common spelling — David is, with 49.6% against Danie'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.

Where Danie is used

Across 1910–2025, Danie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,796,049 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Danie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danie around the world

Where Danie 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
    1948–1952
    #1,139
    in 1952

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

Danie 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
#1,958
1950
Peak year
1984
19 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
543
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,022
1916
Peak year
1987
11 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Danie

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

DannieDanilDanyalDanzelDanishDannerDanyelDaniilDanisDaniDantaDansbyDanelDanyDaniyalDaniellDanonDantaeDantonDanneyDannonDanyloDanellVonnie

Sibling names for Danie

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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