boys:
181 births since 1938
#4405 (4th percentile)
overall:
181 births since 1938
#7558 (2nd percentile)
The name Dannis is the #7,558 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 181 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 2.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,405 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1938.
Dannis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (first recorded for boys in 1938). Birth data for Dannis is available in 27 out of the 71 years between 1938 and 2008. 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.
For boys, Dannis reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #575) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dannis".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dannis is pronounced as DA-nihs, which has 2 syllables.
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