Danice
Feminine
Danice puts a French-looking ending on a man's short form, which is a combination neither language would produce. The nationality the front syllable suggests has a small demonstration of its own about how names attach to things.
How old is the name Danice?
Danice first appears in US birth records in 1935 — 90 years ago. The typical Danice alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 600 people named Danice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Danice most popular?
Danice peaked in 1954, reaching #2027 nationally. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Danice
The pastry English speakers call Danish is called Viennese bread in Denmark, and the Danes are right. Austrian bakers were brought in during a bakers' strike in Copenhagen in the eighteen-fifties and brought their laminated dough with them; Danish bakers learned it, changed it — more egg, more butter, more filling — and then exported the result under their own flag when they emigrated. So the pastry is a Danish improvement on an Austrian technique, marketed abroad as Danish and known at home as Austrian. The same pattern turns up constantly: the French call a thing English and the English call it French, and both are describing where they think it came from rather than where it did. Food names and personal names both work this way, which is why a name that looks French is so often not.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is a clipping of Daniel or Danielle, carrying a documented Hebrew meaning at a distance. The ending is borrowed from French names like Clarice and Bernice and carries nothing here. Nothing records what the family meant by joining them.
Pronouncing Danice
duh-NEECE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The ending says eece rather than iss, following the French names it was borrowed from rather than English words like notice.
Nicknames for Danice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1935
- Most girls named
- 195427 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2027reached in 1954
- Change vs 2001
- 0.0%6 in 2002, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Danices among us
people named Danice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Danice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Back stress gives a two-syllable name a firm landing.
- Dani detaches cleanly and works for a child of any age.
- It is uncommon while being built entirely from familiar pieces.
- Denise and Danisa will both be written for it.
- The ending has two possible readings in English, so strangers will say it two ways.
- Only the front half carries a meaning, and it carries it at a distance.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Danice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Danice in 2025?
- Danice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Danice with classmates?
- Danice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
Dorothy#421 · Donna#1962 · Deborah#862 · Debra#4460 · Diane#2607 · Doris#2895 · Denise#1673 · Danielle#549
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