Danaya is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Danaya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Danaya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Danaya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Danaya ranks at #7,027. That means there are 7,026 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 Danaya.
In fact, the name Danaya did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Danaya seemed to be more popular than ever in 2005. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,887, 50 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Danaya, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danaya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Danaya a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #10,613 - with a total of 7 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The first name Danaya is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 59 Americans in total bear this name. And these 59 women are located in only five states: California, Maryland, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania (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 Danaya 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 Danaya in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 372,916 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Danaya.
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 six letters, the name Danaya is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Danaya 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 Danaya, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danaya
Danaya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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.
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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. Danaya sounds like this:
