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Danita

Girls' name

Diminutive of Daniel

Danita has been given to 7,516 babies in the U.S. since 1932. 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 1961, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Danita, 2024

1 in 478,000

Danita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Daniel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danita means

Danita is a diminutive of Daniel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Danita is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Danita 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, 7,516 girls were recorded with the name Danita between 1932 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 314 in 1961; its best national rank was #551 in 1958.

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 Danita?

Danita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danita 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danita was born before 1967 — so the typical Danita is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,368
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (2,680).

Is Danita 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (314)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#551
1958

Spellings of Danita

Danita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 17.8% against Danita's 0.62%.

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 Danita is used

Across 1910–2025, Danita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 29,353 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 8,333
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 14,286
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 16,667
  4. 4Maryland1 in 16,667
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 16,667
  6. 6Alabama1 in 20,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 20,000

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

Danita around the world

Where Danita 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
    1999–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1960–1962
    #1,873
    in 1962
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1982–1994
    #716
    in 1994

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

Notable people named Danita

People whose public names include Danita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Danita in other languages

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

DaniaDanilaDanitsaDanitsja

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

Danita 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
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Best rank ever
#551
1958
Peak year
1961
314 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7,516
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danita

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

DanielDanikaDanaeDanicaDaniaDanetteDannieRositaLolitaDanyaDanieleLupitaDaniyaNikitaMaritaSaritaDaneenDanyelleDanniDaniBenitaDanishaLanitaDanna

Names with a curve like Danita

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

JuliDoriDanetteKandyDawnaTamelaDeannTeressaLanetteTrenaShellieCindi

Sibling names for Danita

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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