Danaé

given name · Latin script

Meaning: From Greek mythology; possibly from a pre-Greek or Indo-European root

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Danaé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 52K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 157K
  • ESSpain1 in 28K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

6,353 people, 2020

Sources
350 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Danae in US United States, FR France, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Greek mythology; possibly from a pre-Greek or Indo-European root.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Danaé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Danaé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6,3531 in 52K6.3KDanae350
ES Spain1,7721 in 28K1.8KDanae50
FR France≈430 est.≈1 in 157K1.2KDanae146
NL Netherlands3361 in 51K331Danae30
BR Brazil951 in 2.2M95——
UY Uruguay681 in 50K68——
CH Switzerland≈56 est.≈1 in 149K—Danaé17

6,353 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Danaé is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Mexico, Peru, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Greek, Portuguese

    Also written Danae, Danai, Δαναη, Dánae, Δανάη

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Danae, Danaê, Danáē, Danaë, Dánae

  • Lao given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Danae, ดาแน, Dánae, Danaë, Danaè

  • Italian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Peru

    Also written Danae, Dánae, Danaë, Danäe, Dânae

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Danaé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Greek mythological name, from the figure Danaë; Greek origin.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Danaé
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—182#3,822
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—5#27,027

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Danaé mean, and where does it come from?
From Greek mythology; possibly from a pre-Greek or Indo-European root. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Danaé a male or female name?
Danaé is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Danaé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Danaé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danae.
Where is Danaé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danaé is densest in Spain — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Danaé?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,353 people named Danaé in 2020, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Danaé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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