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Danny
Pronounced /ˈdæni/
Rank in 2024
#641
Born in 2024
435
Peak year
1954 · #42
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:11 in 2024 (#9,396)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 435 boys were named Danny, about 1 in every 3,943.
- It peaked in 1954 with 9,105 babies, ranked #42.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 286,194 boys have been named Danny since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Danny per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 1.1Silent1928–45
- 4.1Boomers1946–64
- 2.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,604 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Silent: 23,735 babies, 1.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 155,416 babies, 4.14 per 1,000. Gen X: 53,833 babies, 1.98 per 1,000. Millennials: 28,299 babies, 0.93 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,450 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,850 babies, 0.32 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Dan (“diminutive of Daniel and Danielle”) + -y, from Hebrew דן.
- A unisex given name
- A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
- A diminutive of the female given names Danielle, Daniella, and Daniela.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈdæni/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Danny, CC BY-SA 4.0.