girls:
7.2k births since 1947
#1922 (66th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1990
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1947
#3178 (59th percentile)
The name Danae is the #3,178 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,201 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 58.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,922 (66.4% percentile) for all time with 7,195 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1990.
Danae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for girls and 1990 for boys).
The name Danae has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Danae reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 24.3% percentile (ranked #644) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 107 births per million (ranked 23.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Danae ranks #836 for girls (11.7% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 62.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Danae reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #768) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danae".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Danae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Danae is pronounced as duh-NAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-nay, at 31.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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