Dan
Dan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 82 births. Its best rank was 86th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 820.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19603,697 births
- Best rank
- #86in 1881
- Since 1880
- 106,473people given the name
The story in the numbers
106,473 boys have been named Dan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 3,697 births — 0.17% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 82 births in 2024, against 3,697 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,402 | |
| 1890s | 1,274 | |
| 1900s | 1,499 | |
| 1910s | 4,737 | |
| 1920s | 8,100 | |
| 1930s | 9,629 | |
| 1940s | 18,017 | |
| 1950s | 26,010 | |
| 1960s | 22,709 | |
| 1970s | 5,550 | |
| 1980s | 2,809 | |
| 1990s | 1,860 | |
| 2000s | 1,437 | |
| 2010s | 1,006 | |
| 2020s | 434 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Dan was the 111th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Dan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Perrypeak 1959
- Halpeak 1956
- Thomaspeak 1952
- Davepeak 1959
- Lonniepeak 1947
- Philpeak 1959
- Jimpeak 1959
- Jamespeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.