Daania
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DAN-ee-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Daania is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “near, close”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Daania mean?
Arabic: spelling of Dania; Arabic Daniya; also a feminine form of Daniel in some languages
“near, close”
Meaning borrowed from Dania.
Is Daania a girl's or a boy's name?
Daania is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Daania in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Daania, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Daania in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 53 girls in the UK were given Daania or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #701, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Dania 46
- Daania 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Daania in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
Names like Daania
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Amira Hafsa Zainab Aaliyah Khadija Safiya Hiba Abeeha Nusaybah Ayah Rahma
Other spellings of Daania
Names related to Daania
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Daania: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daania, updated 20 October 2026.