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Danna

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls
US rank, 2025
#394 for girls

Danna is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “of Anna”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 394th for girls in the US (787 babies).

What does Danna mean?

Hebrew

“of Anna”

A female given name from Hebrew.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Danna a girl's or a boy's name?

Danna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 787 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Danna in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,276th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Danna, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 7 girls.

Half of all the girls named Danna in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 44 girls in the UK were given Danna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #796, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 7 in 20112025
Danna in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20244#4,907
20236#3,766
20224#4,870
20210–
20203#5,734
20197#3,340
20180–
20176#3,774
20161#7,664
20154#4,951
20144#4,888
20130–
20123#6,108
20117#3,360
20100–
20095#4,141
20083#5,772
20071#7,017
20061#6,685
20055#3,543
20041#6,173
20030–
20021#5,540
20010–
20000–
19991#5,182
19980–
19970–
19966#2,469

How popular is Danna in the US?

Rank in 2025
394th among girls
Babies in 2025
787 about 1 in 2,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 55% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 787 girls in the US were named Danna, making it the 394th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 487th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 1,226 girls. It first appears in the records in 1916.

2025 had fewer girls named Danna than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Danna in the US since 1880 were born between 1979 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,053 girls in the US were given Danna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #321, up from #394 for this spelling alone.

1916Busiest: 1,226 in 20102025
Danna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025787#394
20241,003#306
20231,056#295
2022899#353
2021843#368
2020627#487
2019621#507
2018594#527
2017581#533
2016610#510
2015602#521
2014564#549
2013650#473
2012625#490
2011876#365
20101,226#267
2009816#390
2008758#424
2007458#647
2006579#522
2005550#527
2004426#643
2003310#797
2002276#839
2001171#1,192
2000110#1,600
1999105#1,594
1998115#1,479
1997108#1,502
199679#1,838
199583#1,742
199483#1,752
199391#1,650
199289#1,684
1991101#1,531
1990127#1,275
1989122#1,285
1988135#1,131
1987128#1,150
198699#1,327
1985104#1,287
1984109#1,197
1983121#1,114
1982101#1,268
1981136#1,050
1980137#1,043
1979130#1,061
1978143#969
1977113#1,127
1976130#980
1975157#849
1974168#804
1973168#787
1972161#823
1971251#648
1970230#687
1969237#644
1968236#625
1967210#661
1966238#615
1965198#700
1964263#623
1963229#665
1962204#721
1961194#748
1960184#753
1959190#735
1958153#812
1957170#764
1956153#801
1955126#864
1954100#968
1953120#848
1952125#810
1951101#907
1950110#832
1949108#849
1948118#789
1947119#796
1946119#748
194580#842
194487#817
194359#1,036
194255#1,055
194148#1,052
194031#1,347
193934#1,265
193829#1,382
193719#1,784
193623#1,549
193520#1,720
193413#2,288
193319#1,773
193216#2,036
193120#1,749
193011#2,689
192912#2,586
192811#2,766
19279#3,282
19269#3,268
192510#3,115
19248#3,663
19236#4,375
19227#4,009
19216#4,462
19207#3,955
19195#4,812
19180–
19170–
19165#4,415

Names like Danna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Eden, Ava, Myla, Mia, Kiara, Delilah, Sienna, Keira, Eliana, Athena, Daphne, Fatima

Other spellings of Danna

Dana, Dannah, Danah

Names related to Danna

Diana, Dania, Dan, Daneen, Deanna, Danni, Danya, Danae, Dayanna, Donna, Dianna

More Hebrew names

Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie

Every Hebrew name

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, “Danna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/danna, updated 20 October 2026.