Danny
Danny is ranked 641st among boys in 2024 (435 births). Its best rank was 39th, in 1947–1948, 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- #641down 43 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4350.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 19549,105 births
- Best rank
- #39first in 1947
- Since 1900
- 287,870people given the name
The story in the numbers
286,194 boys have been named Danny in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 9,105 births — 0.45% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 429 → 641).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1950s alone account for 30%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,676 girls have also been given it, 0.58% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Danny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 66 | |
| 1910s | 389 | |
| 1920s | 1,747 | |
| 1930s | 7,235 | |
| 1940s | 46,659 | |
| 1950s | 86,640 | |
| 1960s | 60,728 | |
| 1970s | 28,864 | |
| 1980s | 20,013 | |
| 1990s | 13,819 | |
| 2000s | 10,547 | |
| 2010s | 7,113 | |
| 2020s | 2,374 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Danny was the 42nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Danny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Terrypeak 1957
- Butchpeak 1956
- Barrypeak 1962
- Michielpeak 1956
- Skippeak 1960
- Ronneypeak 1955
- Randelpeak 1957
- Randpeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.