girls:
31 births since 1944
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
148 births since 1947
#4438 (3rd percentile)
overall:
179 births since 1944
#7560 (2nd percentile)
The name Danis is the #7,560 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 179 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 2.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,438 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 148 births since 1947. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1944.
Danis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1947 for boys). Birth data for Danis is available in 27 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (22 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Danis has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Danis were boys. Interestingly, until around 1949, the name was more popular for girls (61.1% girls from 1944 to 1948), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (87.6% boys from 1949 to 2023).
For boys, Danis reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #908) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Danis ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 78.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Danis reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #611) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Danis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Danis is pronounced as DA-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-neez, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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