Dhani
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dhani has been given to 341 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2010, with 32 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.
Babies named Dhani, 2023
1 in 414,000
Dhani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Dhani over time
In 2023, Dhani went to 43% girls and 57% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Dhani?
Dhani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 214,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dhani sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dhani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dhanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dhani was born before 2010 — so the typical Dhani is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 244
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (137).
Is Dhani 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (32)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 75.1% average annual change
Spellings of Dhani
Dhani is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 24.6% against Dhani's 0.03%.
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 Dhani is used
Across 1910–2025, Dhani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,535,719 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dhani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dhani around the world
Where Dhani 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 & Wales2003–2018#3,412in 2018
- South Australia1980–1989#478in 1989
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dhani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dhani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dhani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.