first name
DANE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 29,787 people named Dane, 82.5% reported their origin as White, 5.6% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. 98.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Dane peaked in 1986, when 1,080 babies got the name.
At least 33,979 babies have been given the name since 1898. 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.
Dane by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #665. The largest share of babies named Dane, 31.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Dane is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dane has been most common in Hawaii (5.6×), Utah (2.7×), and Washington (2.4×), and least common in South Carolina (0.13×).
29,310 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.
Either side of Dane
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dane, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Dane ranks #11,043 of 156,621, with 2,749 people. See Dane as a last name
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