Danica

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Danica: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Danica: Recorded since 1993, it reached #440 in 2013, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#440highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#944
1997	#850
1998	#955
1999	#1393
2000	#1389
2001	#1439
2002	#1442
2003	#1083
2004	#1617
2005	#2084
2006	#1243
2007	#1741
2008	#2150
2009	#1526
2010	#1815
2011	#2150
2012	#1649
2013	#1220
2014	#1798
2015	#1601
2016	#2547
2017	#2341
2018	#2901
2019	#3151
2020	#2163
2021	#2499
2022	#2058
2023	#4056

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2 of the 31 years from 1993 to 2023.

In 2023: #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4056 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1993–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #516 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4056 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Danica appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 414 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1993.

Danica across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Danica's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#516 (1993)	#516 (1993)	#727 (2023)	2 of 31	7 (1993–2023)	4 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#944 (1996)	#850 (1997)	#4056 (2023)	28 of 28	414 (1996–2023)	28 (2013)

Danica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Danica in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	83	4 of 10	21
2000sbusiest	147	10 of 10	15
2010s	144	10 of 10	14
2020s	40	4 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Danica appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2013.

Danica's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1243	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1993 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #440, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 31 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dania · #634, 30y
Danial · #258, 32y
Daniel · #1, 81y
Daniel-Junior · #2483, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Harlie · #440, 29y
Kassie · #440, 26y
Mazie · #440, 28y
Daisy-Mae · #439, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abbie-Rose · #440, 10y
Aleyna · #440, 29y
Annaliese · #440, 29y
Cassia · #440, 29y

Danica was ranked #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Danica and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Danica without appearing here.

Danica moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2084 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1243 and #3548.
Donna Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2150 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #3031.
Belinda Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2150 and #2150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #2535.

Moved ahead of Danica

Francis Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2058 and #2488 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1863.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2058 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2058 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2063.
Cameron Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2058 and #2488 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Danica

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Danica

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Danica went from #944 to #4056 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Danica

Danica at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Danica across 2 official records

Danica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

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Danica at a glance

Danica across 2 official records

Danica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Danica

Danica and the names beside it

Danica moved ahead of

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