Given name & surname
Daan
Daan is a surname from Cebuano. It is used in Dutch and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Daan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 185 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Daan’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Daan has a conventional equivalent in the English form Danny.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Daan
- Daan van DijkDutch racing cyclist (1907-1986)
- Daan HooleDutch bicycle racerborn 1999
- Daan Myngheercyclist1993–2016
- Daan Jippescartoonist (born 1945)
- Daan de GrootRoad bicycle racer (1933-1982)
- Daan KagchellandOlympic sailor1914–1998
- Daan RotsDutch association football playerborn 2001
- Daan OlivierDutch cyclist and politicianborn 1992
- Daan FrenkelDutch physicistborn 1948
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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