girls:
566 births since 1906
#5150 (10th percentile)
boys:
106.4k births since 1880
#293 (94th percentile)
overall:
107k births since 1880
#645 (92nd percentile)
The name Dan is the #645 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 106,953 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #293 (93.6% percentile) for all time with 106,387 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,150 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 566 births since 1906.
Dan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1906 for girls).
The name Dan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dan reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 83.7% percentile (ranked #109) with 1,714 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 1,714 births per million (ranked 83.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dan ranks #816 for boys (10.4% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dan reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #593) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dan ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 17.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dan".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dan is pronounced as dan, which has 1 syllables.
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