Danay
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- duh-NAY
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Danay is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Is Danay a girl's or a boy's name?
Danay is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Danay in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Danay, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2005, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.
Half of all the girls named Danay in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 106 girls in the US were given Danay or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,627, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Danay in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,859 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,377 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,418 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,367 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,878 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,200 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,060 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,055 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,898 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,512 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,322 |
Names like Danay
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassidy Riley Teagan Bailey Brooklyn Raven Delaney Hailey Kennedy Anya Devyn Lainey
Other spellings of Danay
Names related to Danay
Sources
Figures from 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, “Danay: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/danay, updated 20 October 2026.