Danica
Danica reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 307, and has been recorded 16,522 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,631st. About 16,000 Danicas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Danica
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,522
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 307th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,631st
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Danicas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,522 babies given the name since 1916, about 16,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 7,400 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Slavic languages
From sla female given name, from the sla name for the Morning Star (an aspect of the planet Venus).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Danicas
- Danica Patrick (born 1982)American racecar driver
- Danica McKellar (born 1975)American actress and writer
- Danica Roem (born 1984)American journalist and politician
- Danica Dillan (born 1987)American pornographic actress
People named Danica with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Danica is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Danica is most concentrated in Nevada (2.7×), Washington (2.5×), Arizona (2.4×), California (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Danica peaked:
Danica elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Danica | 418 | 1,220th |
| France girls | Danica | 65 | 7,421st |
| Switzerland girls | Danica | 55 | 794th |
| Scotland girls | Danica | 18 | 564th |
| Ireland girls | Danica | 7 | 727th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Danica | 3 | 440th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Danica: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Danica | 42 | 0.003% | 747th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Danica | 10 | 0.002% | 583rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Danica | 3 | 0.005% | 170th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Danica among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Danica | 30 | 39 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Danica against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.