Dannia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DAN-ee-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Dannia is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “near, close”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Dannia mean?
Arabic: spelling of Dania; Arabic Daniya; also a feminine form of Daniel in some languages
“near, close”
Meaning borrowed from Dania.
Is Dannia a girl's or a boy's name?
Dannia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dannia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Dannia, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had fewer girls named Dannia than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Dannia in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 249 girls in the US were given Dannia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #935, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Dannia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,127 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,544 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Dannia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckenna, Dahlia, Kennedy, Alessia, Sienna, Aria, Sophia, Alia, Briella, Teagan, Kiara, Brynlee
Other spellings of Dannia
Names related to Dannia
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Dannia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dannia, updated 20 October 2026.