first name
DANNY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 197,114 people named Danny, 67.1% reported their origin as White, 15.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.5% as Black. 99.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Danny peaked in 1954, when 9,126 babies got the name.
At least 288,341 babies have been given the name since 1900. 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.
Danny by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #87. The largest share of babies named Danny, 54.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Danny is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danny has been most common in Kentucky (2.4×), West Virginia (2.4×), and Arkansas (2.3×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.22×).
284,153 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 Danny
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danny, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Danny ranks #64,041 of 156,621, with 336 people. See Danny as a last name
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