Danna
The girl's name Danna has been in the national records since 1916, with 25,240 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 394th. About 24,000 Dannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 25,240
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 267th
- Rank in 2025
- 394th
- First recorded
- 1916
- Girls / boys
- 25,106 / 134
How old the living Dannas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 25,240 babies given the name since 1916, about 24,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Hebrew
As a surname from French D'Anna (“of Anna”). The given name is more probably a feminine form coined from Dan or Daniel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dannas
- Danna Paola (born 1995)Mexican singer, actress, composer and model
- Danna García (born 1978)Colombian actress
People named Danna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Danna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Danna is most concentrated in Texas (3.1×), Arizona (2.5×), Nevada (2.2×), California (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year Danna peaked:
Danna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Danna | 195 | 3,170th |
| England and Wales girls | Danna | 62 | 3,583rd |
| Switzerland girls | Danna | 15 | 1,347th |
| Scotland girls | Danna | 3 | 611th |
| Poland girls | Danna | 2 birth registrations | 766th |
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.
Danna: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Danna | 13 | 0.001% | 1,032nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Danna | 2 | 0.000% | 901st |
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.
Danna: rank by region
In 2022, Danna was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Danna | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Danna lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,005 women called Danna were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Danna | 13 | 0.075 | 1,033 |
| Girona | Danna | 29 | 0.070 | 1,041 |
| Palmas, Las | Danna | 41 | 0.070 | 1,333 |
| Barcelona | Danna | 205 | 0.067 | 979 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Danna | 34 | 0.061 | 1,316 |
| Toledo | Danna | 23 | 0.061 | 1,032 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Danna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.