Danique

Girls' name

Feminine form of Daniël

Danique has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1991, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Danique, 2016

1 in 734,000

Danique over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danique: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Daniël

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danique means

Danique is a feminine form of Daniël.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Danique is used in Dutch (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /daː.ˈnik/ for Danique.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniël.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 girls were recorded with the name Danique between 1985 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,058 in 1991.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Danique?

Danique had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 354,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Danique 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danique. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daniques were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danique was born before 1997 — so the typical Danique is around 28 today.

Median birth year: 1997; About 28 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 84.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 134; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Danique 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: —; 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 1991 (12)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,058; 1991

Spellings of Danique

Danique is not the most common spelling — Monique is, with 82.2% against Danique's 0.14%.

Monique82.2%78,783
Unique7.9%7,615
Daniele3.7%3,564
Shanique1.8%1,689
Danise0.90%866
Danille0.73%702
Danice0.73%695
Eunique0.66%628

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.

Danique around the world

Where Danique 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
1998–2008
#5,545
in 2008
South Australia
1989–2005
#775
in 2005

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.

Danique by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,058; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 12 that year
First recorded: 1985
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 134
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Danique

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

Daniyla Danilah Danylah Danahi Danaly Danielys Daneli Daniylah Danila Danayah Danylle Dannae Danelly Danelia Danilyn Danilynn Danicia Danicka Danissa Danniel Daniqua Danikah Danijah Danalee

Sibling names for Danique

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shaniqua Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy Maegan

For a brother

Shay Jamil Laron Paris Coty Rico Malcom German

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