Danah is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Danah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Danah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Danah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Danah ranks at #5,568. That means there are 5,567 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Danah.
In fact, the name Danah hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Danah wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1980, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,651, 31 parents chose it in 1980 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Danah, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Danah a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 9,733, for a total of 8 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Danah seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Danah is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 31 Americans in total bear this name. And these 31 women are located in only four states: California, Illinois, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Danah and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Danah in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 994,194 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Danah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Danah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Danah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Danah, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danah
Danah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
N
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
N
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Danah sounds like this:
