Daenerys
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- duh-NAIR-iss
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #1,758 for girls
Daenerys is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,758th for girls in the US (115 babies).
What does Daenerys mean?
Modern: invented for George R. R. Martin's fantasy novels
Created for Daenerys Targaryen in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted as Game of Thrones.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Daenerys a girl's or a boy's name?
Daenerys is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 115 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Daenerys in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 9 girls.
Daenerys in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
How popular is Daenerys in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,758th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 115 about 1 in 14,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 115 girls in the US were named Daenerys, making it the 1,758th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,135th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 166 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Daenerys in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Daenerys in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,758 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,559 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,656 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,692 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,851 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,135 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,508 |
| 2018 | 166 | #1,360 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,842 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,956 |
| 2015 | 82 | #2,278 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,194 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,597 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
Nicknames for Daenerys
Names like Daenerys
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeva, Elodie, Indie, Delilah, Fiadh, Ivy-Rose, Orla, Nova, Isla, Myla, Imogen, Aria
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Daenerys: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daenerys, updated 20 October 2026.