Danette
Danette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 416th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1966501 births
- Best rank
- #416in 1966
- Since 1930
- 10,387people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,387 girls have been named Danette in the United States since 1930, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 501 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 501 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 42%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Danette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 37 | |
| 1940s | 183 | |
| 1950s | 1,974 | |
| 1960s | 4,394 | |
| 1970s | 2,549 | |
| 1980s | 745 | |
| 1990s | 252 | |
| 2000s | 120 | |
| 2010s | 92 | |
| 2020s | 41 |
In 1966, its biggest year
Danette was the 416th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Danette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sheripeak 1963
- Julipeak 1961
- Tamelapeak 1959
- Dannettepeak 1965
- Loriepeak 1963
- Treasapeak 1967
- Tamipeak 1959
- Danitapeak 1961
Other spellings in the data
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.