Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Danah isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Danah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,050
- 0 boys · 1,050 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #8,997 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,997 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 40.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 916 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Danah
- Danah boydsocial media scholar and youth researcherborn 1977
- Danah Al-NasrallahKuwaiti track and field sprinterborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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