As a diminutive of Daniel, Danny also means ‘God judges’, derived from the Hebrew word “din’ēl”. The second origin possibly lies in the Akkadian word “danānu-ēl”, which means “God is mighty”.
Danny is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Danny 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 boys names, Danny ranks 454. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Danny. In the entire USA, approximately 282,308 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Danny. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
As a diminutive of Daniel, Danny also means ‘God judges’, derived from the Hebrew word “din’ēl”. The second origin possibly lies in the Akkadian word “danānu-ēl”, which means “God is mighty”.
Danny is known and used... in several non-English speaking countries such as France, Italy and the Netherlands.
#39 - this is the highest position Danny has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Danny reached this top position was in the last century, in 1950, when 8,161 newborn boys were named Danny. But as our statistics show, Danny has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1906, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Danny is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn sons.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danny was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 469 newborns were given the name Danny, making them rank #569. Although the name Danny was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their sons. So the chances of an encounter with a young Danny are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Danny is one of them. However, Danny is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Kentucky seem to particularly fancy this name – the 12,144 men called Danny who live here are 0,431% of all male residents and push their name up to #49 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Kentucky. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 282,308 people with the name Danny. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Danny on position 120 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Danny 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 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Danny 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 Danny, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danny
Danny
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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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A
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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. Danny sounds like this:
