How rare is the name Danette?

8,947 people in the United States have the first name Danette, about 1 in 33,758. It ranks #2,644 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DANETTE

#2,644

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,947
About
1 in 33,758
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 8,947 people named Danette, 71.5% reported their origin as White, 12.8% as Black and 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Danette peaked in 1966, when 501 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19302025
Peak year
1966
Births that year
501
In 2025*
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,392 babies have been given the name since 1930. 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.

Danette by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #824. The largest share of babies named Danette, 46.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#7,31637
1940s#3,564183
1950s#1,1751,974
1960s#8244,394
1970s#1,1342,549
1980s#2,631745
1990s#6,860252
2000s#14,451120
2010s#17,66592
2020s#18,91646
Silent Generation 1928–451.1%
Baby boom 1946–6441.5%
Generation X 1965–8046.4%
Millennials 1981–968.1%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.9%

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 Danette is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danette has been most common in Hawaii (4.6×), Montana (4×), and Colorado (2.6×), and least common in Tennessee (0.22×).

7,723 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 Danette

#2,642 Reinaldo · 8,958#2,643 Kia · 8,949#2,645 Natividad · 8,939#2,646 Maliyah · 8,935

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danette, most common first.

#1,049 Dante · 40,067#8,252 Dannette · 1,764#15,599 Danetta · 735#17,322 Dawnette · 639#22,184 Dantae · 451#29,893 Dawnetta · 294#36,405 Danett · 218#36,633 Danute · 216

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