The name Danica comes from a Slavic word meaning ‘morning star’. In Slavic folklore, the personification of the morning star, which is often the planet Venus, bears the name Danica.
Danica is a first name for girls.
The name Danica isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Danica ranks 722. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Danica. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Danica.
The name Danica comes from a Slavic word meaning ‘morning star’. In Slavic folklore, the personification of the morning star, which is often the planet Venus, bears the name Danica.
This name began... to be used in English-speaking countries during the 1970s.
Danica is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Danica cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #292 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2007. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Danica, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Danica seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danica was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
179 babies were named Danica in 2022 - that's 1 in 828,111 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Danica ranked 1,189 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 Danica 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 Danica 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 Danica, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danica
Danica
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
N
I
C
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.
D
A
N
I
C
A
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. Danica sounds like this:
