Danute
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danute has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1952, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Danute, 1957
1 in 840,000
Danute over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Danute?
Danute had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 840,000
- 5 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 409,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 582,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Danute sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danute. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Danutes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danute was born before 1952 — so the typical Danute is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Danute 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1952 (6)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Danute
Danute is not the most common spelling — Danette is, with 34.9% against Danute's 0.04%.
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 Danute is used
Across 1910–2025, Danute was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 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. Danute has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Danute around the world
Where Danute 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.
- South Australia1949–1960#432in 1960
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Danute by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Danute
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Danute
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.