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Danisha

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Danisha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
50.00% of girls
Peak year
1994154 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1969
2,421people given the name
Babies named Danisha, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

2,421 girls have been named Danisha in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 154 births.

The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 154 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 41%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Danisha
1960s5
1970s226
1980s580
1990s988
2000s423
2010s155
2020s44

In 1994, its biggest year

Danisha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1994 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1994.

Names that rose and fell with Danisha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.