Danton

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Danton has been given to 570 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1989, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Danton, 2022

1 in 677,000

Danton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Danton?

Danton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danton 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dantons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danton was born before 1989 — so the typical Danton is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
544
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Danton 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 1989 (21)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,486
1949

Spellings of Danton

Danton is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 18.7% against Danton's 0.06%.

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.

Danton around the world

Where Danton 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
    1900–1969
    #1,636
    in 1969
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #1,768
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #427
    in 1957

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

Danton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,486
1949
Peak year
1989
21 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
570
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danton

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

Sibling names for Danton

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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