first name
DANICA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 15,391 people named Danica, 62.9% reported their origin as White, 14.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Danica peaked in 2007, when 1,109 babies got the name.
At least 16,522 babies have been given the name since 1916. 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.
Danica by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,041. The largest share of babies named Danica, 46.8%, 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 Danica is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danica has been most common in Nevada (2.7×), Washington (2.5×), and Arizona (2.4×), and least common in South Carolina (0.27×).
13,163 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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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danica, most common first.
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