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Danny

Boys' name · Mid-century

Living in the US
~218,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#628 among boys
Births in 2025
462 288,341 since 1880
Typical age
62 years, median

Danny popularity over time

Danny rank by birth year, 1900–2025Danny ranked #1,050 in 1900 and #628 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #39, in 1947.#100#1,000#628best #39 in 19471920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1900–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1954: 9,126 births recorded as Danny. The name does not appear in the data until 1900. Across the record, 33 years put Danny in the top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #628 with 462 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 36%.

Babies named Danny per yearPeaks at 9,126 births in 1954.9,126 in 195401920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Danny?

Roughly 218,400 Dannys are alive in the US right now. That is out of 288,341 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Danny?

Median age among living Dannys: 62. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Danny a mid-century name.

Your Danny

Ages of living people named DannyHalf of living Dannys are older than 62 and half younger.median 62020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Danny is most common

The name is concentrated in Oklahoma, at 1.6× the national rate. California, Alabama and Kentucky follow.

Where Danny is used more than average5 states use the name Danny more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.6× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: 1.4× the national rateKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: 1.4× the national rateARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: 1.6× the national rateOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: 1.5× the national rateALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Danny is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Oklahoma 81 1.6×
California 898 1.6×
Alabama 95 1.5×
Kentucky 83 1.4×
Arkansas 52 1.4×

Danny in England and Wales

ONS recorded 83 births named Danny in 2025, ranking it #469. That is 38% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Danny comes from

From Dan + -y, from Hebrew דן.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Danny

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Danny Boyle English filmmaker 1956 78
Danny Welbeck English association football player 1990 64
Danny Glover American actor 1946 58
Danny Trejo Native Mexican-American character actor 1944 55
Danny Aiello American actor 1933–2019 46
Danny Huston American actor, director 1962 45
Danny Drinkwater English association football player 1990 40
Danny Ings English association football player 1992 39
Photo credits (7)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 4,195 in 1945 to 6,667 in 1946 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Danny

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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