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Danya

#4,282 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Danya has been given to 3,678 babies in the U.S. since 1939. In 2025 it ranked #4,282 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 126 recorded.

Babies named Danya, 2025

1 in 100,000

Danya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danya: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danya means

Danya has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Danya

A separate documented entry treats Danya as a feminine form of Dan. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Danya as a alternate transcription of Daniya. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Danya as a diminutive of Daniil. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Danya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,649 girls were recorded with the name Danya between 1939 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 126 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,641 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,028 in 2020 to #4,282 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,940 in 2015 to #4,282 in 2025.

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Danya between 1975 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,027 in 1975.

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 Danya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,282
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danya 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 2025 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danya was born before 1999 — so the typical Danya is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,560
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (908).

Is Danya 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
−442
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−254
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,342
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.2%
Peak was 2007 (126)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,641
1977

Spellings of Danya

Danya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.1% against Danya's 0.08%.

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 Danya is used

Across 2016–2025, Danya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 43,928 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Danya around the world

Where Danya 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • France
    1991–2025
    #941
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Danya

People whose public names include Danya, 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.

Danya in other languages

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

DanaDanyDania

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

Danya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,282
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 254
Best rank ever
#1,641
1977
Peak year
2007
126 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,649
Count in 2025
33

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,027
1975
Peak year
1975
8 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danya

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

DanniDanaeDannyDaniaDannieDanahAanyaDanieleDanielDaniyaDanayJanyaDonyaDaneenDaniDanikaSanyaDanishaDannaAnanyaDannyaDanaiDanicaDaniyah

Names with a curve like Danya

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

CharisMaileAnamariaJaynaAnnalisaGiselaIndiraAnalisaLanaeLeeannaJordanaIsela

Sibling names for Danya

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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