first name
DANITA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,263 people named Danita, 44.9% reported their origin as White, 44.3% as Black and 4.6% 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.
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Danita peaked in 1961, when 314 babies got the name.
At least 7,516 babies have been given the name since 1932. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Danita by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,059. The largest share of babies named Danita, 43%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Danita is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danita has been most common in District of Columbia (3.7×), Louisiana (2.4×), and Kentucky (1.9×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.39×).
5,014 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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5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danita, most common first.
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