Dann
Masculine
Dann is given to both — 1,089 boys and 1,145 girls since 1880. See Dann as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Denmark is named after a legendary king called Dan. The country's own chroniclers said so from the twelfth century onward, giving him a brother called Angul who supposedly named the Angles, which is a tidy arrangement and almost certainly invented to explain names that were already old.
How old is the name Dann?
Dann first appears in US birth records in 1927 — 98 years ago. The typical Dann alive today was born around 1958, making them about 67 years old. About 800 people named Dann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dann most popular?
Dann peaked in 1957, reaching #897 nationally. See the whole 1957 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dann
Explaining a nation by inventing an ancestor is a standard medieval move and it produced a whole genre. The Danish chronicler gave the country a founder called Dan; the British were given Brutus of Troy, from whom Britain supposedly got its name; the Franks were given a Trojan too. In every case the name came first and the ancestor was reverse-engineered from it, sometimes centuries later, by writers who needed a beginning and had no material. Historians call the type an eponymous founder and treat the whole class as evidence about the writers rather than the past. What the country's name actually means is disputed, with readings involving flat land and forest boundaries both in circulation.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Two unrelated sources and no way to choose. The Hebrew Dan is a verb meaning he judged and the name of a tribe; the Scandinavian Dan is a legendary figure and an element in Danmark and Dane. As an American given name it is likelier a clipping of Daniel or Danielle, and the record does not say.
Pronouncing Dann
DAN
One syllable, said exactly as the ordinary spelling. The doubled n changes nothing, since the vowel before it is already short and English does not otherwise end words this way.
Nicknames for Dann
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
- 1927
- Most boys named
- 195665 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #897reached in 1957
- Change vs 1997
- 0.0%5 in 2003, from 5
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.
Danns among us
people named Dann 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
Dann 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
- Short, plain and impossible to mispronounce.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- The extra letter distinguishes the written form without complicating the spoken one.
- The record carries it for boys as well as girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- The doubled n is unusual at the end of an English word and looks like an error.
- It is a clipping and leaves nothing more formal on the certificate.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Dann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dann in 2025?
- Dann is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Dann with classmates?
- Dann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
David#35 · Daniel#22 · Donald#690 · Dennis#707 · Douglas#807 · Dylan#41 · Danny#628 · Dale#1409
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