Dany
Masculine · “God is my judge”
Dany is given to both — 1,430 boys and 111 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Dany is the French and Spanish short form of Daniel, and Daniel is a Hebrew sentence: God is my judge. It is used as a complete registered name across France, Quebec and Latin America.
How old is the name Dany?
Dany first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Dany alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,400 people named Dany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dany most popular?
Dany peaked in 1954, reaching #1956 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 1,284 places below that high. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Daniyyel to Dany
The story of Dany
Daniel has been in continuous use in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities for well over two thousand years, and every European language has a short form of it. French made Dany and Danny; Spanish made Dani. The French spelling, with one n, is the one used in France, Belgium and Quebec, and it reaches American records with families from those places and from Haiti, where French naming is standard.
Meaning
God is my judge
From Hebrew Daniyyel, joining a word for judgment to the element meaning God; the prophet Daniel gives his name to one of the books of the Hebrew Bible.
How the name formed
- Daniyyel
- Daniel
- Dany
Related forms: Danny · Dani · Daniel
Pronouncing Dany
DA-nee
Two syllables, first stressed. French gives the first vowel a flatter sound than English does.
Nicknames for Dany
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
- 1946
- Most boys named
- 200846 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1956reached in 1954
- Change vs 2023
- −16.3%36 in 2025, from 43
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.
Dany in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Danny in English — spelling variant
- Dani in Spanish — related form
- Daniel in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, New York, California.
Danys among us
people named Dany are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Dany
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dany
- #3240
- Dany on the 2025 chart
- #507
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dany went to 36 boys in 2025, but Danny and Dani are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 506, which makes it the 507th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,733 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 3,376 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 for Dany itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Garlin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dany's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Garlin climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Garlin's path sketches the road Dany is walking now.
Dany sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Dany is headed
Dany should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dany beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dany in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence, inherited from a very well-documented name.
- Four letters and two syllables, easy in French, Spanish and English alike.
- Dan and Daniel both stand behind it as plainer or fuller options.
- Danny is the standard English spelling and the second n will be added for him constantly.
- It reads as a nickname to English speakers, which may matter on a formal document.
- A very well-known television character of the same short name is a woman, which occasionally confuses.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Dany are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dany?
- Dany is one of 3 recorded spellings. Danny is the more common one — 445 births in 2025 against 36 for Dany.
- How popular is the name Dany in 2025?
- Dany ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dany?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Dany — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dany with classmates?
- Dany will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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