first name
DANAE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,353 people named Danae, 46.9% reported their origin as White, 23.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 22.4% as Black. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Danae peaked in 2001, when 212 babies got the name.
At least 7,449 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Danae by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,882. The largest share of babies named Danae, 35.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Danae is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danae has been most common in Arizona (2.8×), California (2.6×), and Colorado (2.6×), and least common in Georgia (0.34×).
4,417 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danae, most common first.
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