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Dannette

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dannette has been given to 2,155 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1965, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Dannette, 2005

1 in 641,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dannette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dannette means

Dannette is a given name.

The naming story behind Dannette

Wikidata records Dannette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q104859012, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,155 girls were recorded with the name Dannette between 1936 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1965; its best national rank was #1,034 in 1965.

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 Dannette?

Dannette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 641,000
6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
444,107 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dannette 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 2005 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 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dannette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dannettes were born

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

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,032
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (825).

Is Dannette 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 1965 (102)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,034
1965

Spellings of Dannette

Dannette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 46.8% against Dannette's 0.60%.

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 Dannette is used

Across 1910–2025, Dannette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 190,428 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Montana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

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

Notable people named Dannette

People whose public names include Dannette, 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.

Dannette in other languages

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

Danette

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

Dannette 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
#1,034
1965
Peak year
1965
102 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
2,155
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dannette

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

DanetteDanishaDanyelleDaniyahDanasiaDanieleEllietteDanitzaDannieDanellaDaniyaDaneenElliotteDanilynnDaniellDanyetteDanyellDanellyBrigetteOlivetteCozetteVioletteCosetteDaneisha

Names with a curve like Dannette

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

HeideBeckiDennaLoryDawneDeedeeDeeannKelleJeanmarieTamieDenitaMachelle

Sibling names for Dannette

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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