Dani

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Dani: Recorded since 1975, it reached #306 in 2016, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
115times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#306highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#571
1997	#820
1998	#925
1999	#1261
2000	#993
2001	#1170
2002	#809
2003	#1269
2004	#1072
2005	#1406
2006	#2320
2007	#1337
2008	#2022
2009	#2019
2010	#1520
2011	#2636
2012	#1991
2013	#3160
2014	#2659
2015	#3252
2016	#4096
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#1854
2020	#1939
2021	#2201
2022	#1685
2023	#2201
2024	#2574

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 boys in Norway in 41 of the 51 years from 1975 to 2025.

In 2024: #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland, #2574 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1975–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #602 among boys in Norway in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2021
Highest recorded position: #306 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2002–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #493 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Dani appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 41 years beginning in 1975, and has registered 294 births with the name.

Dani across 5 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.

Dani'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
Norway · Boys	#602 (1975)	#319 (2007)	#493 (2025)	41 of 51	294 (1975–2025)	13 (1986)
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#1664 (1999)	#3254 (2024)	26 of 29	177 (1996–2024)	11 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#571 (1996)	#571 (1996)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	455 (1996–2024)	43 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#362 (2019)	#483 (2025)	15 of 24	87 (2002–2025)	11 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#339 (2002)	#306 (2016)	#350 (2021)	3 of 20	12 (2002–2021)	5 (2016)

Dani by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Dani in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	9	2 of 10	5
1980sbusiest	84	9 of 10	9
1990s	68	9 of 10	8
2000s	64	9 of 10	7
2010s	48	8 of 10	6
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Dani 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 5 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #306 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Dani'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1337	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#571	43	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#468	4	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#393	6	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#379	7	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#444	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#420	7	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#483	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#523	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#411	8	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#381	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#492	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#424	8	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#377	10	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#319	12	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#522	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#436	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#397	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#430	6	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#491	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#493	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#500	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#391	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#406	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#565	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#447	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#568	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#373	10	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#412	9	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#347	13	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#347	13	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#394	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#428	9	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#341	13	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#435	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#406	10	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#464	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#489	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#635	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#554	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#602	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	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
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 5 registrars between 1975 and 2025, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #306, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 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.

Dane · #62, 45y
Daneen · #1180, 18y
Dania · #634, 30y
Danial · #258, 32y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Omer · #323, 42y
Leni · #288, 45y
Diego · #279, 45y
Samson · #342, 44y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Jayson · #307, 32y
Aldo · #304, 26y
Maxime · #304, 30y
Morris · #304, 31y

Dani was ranked #306 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. 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.

Dani 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 Dani without appearing here.

Dani moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #4684.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #2165 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Dani

Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1520 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2636 and #1067.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2125 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #2018.
Alma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1406 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2320 and #1087.
Theodor Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1981 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2400 and #1201.

Moved the opposite way to Dani

Birk Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Dani went from #347 to #493 while Birk went from #562 to #18.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dani went from #571 to #2574 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dani went from #1765 to #3254 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dani went from #1765 to #3254 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.

Moved the same way as Dani

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dani went from #1765 to #3254 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dani went from #571 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dani went from #1765 to #3254 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dani went from #571 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 5 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #306 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dani

Dani at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dani across 5 official records

Dani by decade in Norway · Boys

Dani appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Dani

Dani and the names beside it

Dani moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dani

Moved the opposite way to Dani

Moved the same way as Dani

Dani at a glance

Dani across 5 official records

Dani by decade in Norway · Boys

Dani appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Dani

Dani and the names beside it

Dani moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dani

Moved the opposite way to Dani

Moved the same way as Dani