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Danish

#9,092 in 2025Boys' name

Knowledge, learning

Danish has been given to 425 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #9,092 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Danish, 2025

1 in 414,000

Danish over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danish: meaning, origin, and history

Knowledge, learning

Persian

What Danish means

Danish means “knowledge, learning”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Urdu دَانِش (dāniś), from Classical Persian دَانِش (dāniš).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Danish (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Danish is used in English and Malay. Its origins include Persian.

Danish comes through fa-cls دَانِش.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Danish is pronounced [dɛ.neʃ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 425 boys were recorded with the name Danish between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,687 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,897 in 2020 to #9,092 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,480 in 2015 to #9,092 in 2025.

How common is Danish?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,092
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danish 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 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danish was born before 2003 — so the typical Danish is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
425
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Danish 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
−1,206
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,805
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,388
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2003 (20)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,687
1993

Spellings of Danish

Danish is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 95.7% against Danish's 0.02%.

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 Danish is used

Across 1910–2025, Danish was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,751,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Danish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danish around the world

Where Danish 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2019
    #516
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2004–2004
    #506
    in 2004
  • France
    1991–2024
    #6,491
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Danish by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,092
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,805
Best rank ever
#3,687
1993
Peak year
2003
20 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
425
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Danish

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

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Sibling names for Danish

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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