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How popular is “Danny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Danny” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Danny” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Danny” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Danny” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Danny” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Danny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Danny” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 14 0.000014169 14 -100%
1913 33 0.000029021 33 -100%
1914 28 0.000019769 28 -100%
1915 39 0.000021283 39 -100%
1916 43 0.000022229 43 -100%
1917 64 0.000031892 64 -100%
1918 77 0.000035466 5 72 -87%
1919 77 0.000036489 77 -100%
1920 90 0.000039776 90 -100%
1921 102 0.000043692 102 -100%
1922 108 0.000047179 108 -100%
1923 124 0.000053855 124 -100%
1924 126 0.000052905 126 -100%
1925 182 0.000078001 8 174 -91%
1926 231 0.000100614 8 223 -93%
1927 209 0.000090111 209 -100%
1928 288 0.000127381 11 277 -92%
1929 319 0.000145519 5 314 -97%
1930 395 0.000177665 5 390 -97%
1931 397 0.000188653 10 387 -95%
1932 422 0.000199878 422 -100%
1933 508 0.00025407 6 502 -98%
1934 610 0.000293719 6 604 -98%
1935 670 0.000320589 670 -100%
1936 764 0.000367736 6 758 -98%
1937 1031 0.000483885 9 1022 -98%
1938 1218 0.00055049 9 1209 -99%
1939 1280 0.000580909 9 1271 -99%
1940 1483 0.000644031 5 1478 -99%
1941 1656 0.000679684 12 1644 -99%
1942 2212 0.000809717 9 2203 -99%
1943 2911 0.001031334 13 2898 -99%
1944 3523 0.001309627 12 3511 -99%
1945 4195 0.001581282 20 4175 -99%
1946 6667 0.002086497 17 6650 -99%
1947 8090 0.002245774 21 8069 -99%
1948 8029 0.002325549 21 8008 -99%
1949 8048 0.002309474 25 8023 -99%
1950 8159 0.002328909 16 8143 -100%
1951 8205 0.002227356 26 8179 -99%
1952 8858 0.002332277 37 8821 -99%
1953 8653 0.002245407 26 8627 -99%
1954 9128 0.002293059 23 9105 -99%
1955 8743 0.002177541 25 8718 -99%
1956 8593 0.002084143 29 8564 -99%
1957 8857 0.002107734 35 8822 -99%
1958 8967 0.002169136 34 8933 -99%
1959 8770 0.002109191 42 8728 -99%
1960 8641 0.002080256 28 8613 -99%
1961 8230 0.001986818 36 8194 -99%
1962 7684 0.001904162 38 7646 -99%
1963 7126 0.001800313 28 7098 -99%
1964 6501 0.001672238 26 6475 -99%
1965 5705 0.001573598 30 5675 -99%
1966 4741 0.001364059 20 4721 -99%
1967 4335 0.001276916 24 4311 -99%
1968 4011 0.001187244 28 3983 -99%
1969 4054 0.00116651 42 4012 -98%
1970 3799 0.001053372 31 3768 -98%
1971 3638 0.001059914 28 3610 -98%
1972 3338 0.001062045 32 3306 -98%
1973 3201 0.001061028 21 3180 -99%
1974 2891 0.000950987 30 2861 -98%
1975 2771 0.000917734 31 2740 -98%
1976 2527 0.000832812 33 2494 -97%
1977 2456 0.000773179 20 2436 -98%
1978 2228 0.000701982 19 2209 -98%
1979 2276 0.0006841 16 2260 -99%
1980 2285 0.000663375 18 2267 -98%
1981 2109 0.000609648 15 2094 -99%
1982 2059 0.000586951 14 2045 -99%
1983 2041 0.000589316 22 2019 -98%
1984 2025 0.000580436 25 2000 -98%
1985 2035 0.00057017 20 2015 -98%
1986 1930 0.00054258 17 1913 -98%
1987 1862 0.000516417 16 1846 -98%
1988 1923 0.000520427 21 1902 -98%
1989 1928 0.000501503 16 1912 -98%
1990 1933 0.00048906 14 1919 -99%
1991 1862 0.000478016 17 1845 -98%
1992 1637 0.000426161 14 1623 -98%
1993 1437 0.000381139 15 1422 -98%
1994 1291 0.000347262 12 1279 -98%
1995 1271 0.000347063 12 1259 -98%
1996 1219 0.000334229 13 1206 -98%
1997 1153 0.000318003 13 1140 -98%
1998 1067 0.000290087 10 1057 -98%
1999 1075 0.000291023 6 1069 -99%
2000 1066 0.000282018 7 1059 -99%
2001 1020 0.00027248 1020 -100%
2002 1170 0.000312977 10 1160 -98%
2003 1089 0.000286404 6 1083 -99%
2004 1053 0.000275588 14 1039 -97%
2005 1058 0.000275174 8 1050 -98%
2006 1079 0.000272737 5 1074 -99%
2007 1074 0.000268656 10 1064 -98%
2008 1005 0.000255682 10 995 -98%
2009 1020 0.000267003 17 1003 -97%
2010 1010 0.000273288 10 1000 -98%
2011 868 0.000237302 5 863 -99%
2012 787 0.000215182 13 774 -97%
2013 773 0.000212033 11 762 -97%
2014 717 0.00019345 7 710 -98%
2015 724 0.000195627 9 715 -98%
2016 653 0.000177992 12 641 -96%
2017 588 0.000164421 11 577 -96%
2018 537 0.000152735 12 525 -96%
2019 557 0.000160476 11 546 -96%
2020 508 0.00015207 14 494 -94%
2021 533 0.000157322 17 516 -94%
2022 471 0.00013922 15 456 -94%
2023 488 0.000147379 15 473 -94%
2024 446 0.000133994 11 435 -95%

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