Danya is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Danya is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Danya. In the SmartGenius ranking, Danya is #2,697 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Danya.
While Danya isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1977 the name Danya reached its highest popularity with #1,453 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Danya. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Danya.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 54 babies were born with the name Danya. This puts the name in rank 2,698 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,745,035 newborns was named Danya that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Danya has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Danya are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Danya is registered in 15 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Danya live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 26,870 would turn around if you called the name Danya across California.
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 Danya 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 Danya 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 Danya, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danya
Danya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
N
Y
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
Y
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. Danya sounds like this:
