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Danka

Girls' name

Diminutive of Danuta

Danka has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2002, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Danka, 2002

1 in 747,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Danuta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danka means

Danka is a diminutive of Danuta.

Origin, language, and formation

Danka is used in Polish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Danuta, Dana, Danica and Daniela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Danka is pronounced /ˈdan.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Danka between 2002 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2002; its best national rank was #16,034 in 2002.

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 Danka?

Danka 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 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danka 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dankas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danka was born before 2002 — so the typical Danka is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Danka 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (5)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#16,034
2002

Spellings of Danka

Danka is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 24.5% against Danka'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.

Danka around the world

Where Danka 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
    1978–1978
    #1,978
    in 1978
  • South Australia
    1952–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danka 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
#16,034
2002
Peak year
2002
5 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danka

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

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Sibling names for Danka

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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