Danish
given name · Latin script
Meaning: VAL knowledge; wisdom;
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/deɪnɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danish is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 12Kas Denis
- MDMoldova1 in 165as Denis
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Danish itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
VAL knowledge; wisdom;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danish 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #209 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Danish | 114 |
| BR Brazil | — | 67,482as Denis | 1 in 3.1K | 76K | Danish | 11 |
| US United States | — | 27,745as Denis | 1 in 12K | 26K | Danish | 241 |
| MD Moldova | — | 20,408as Denis | 1 in 165 | 20K | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 13,490as Denis | 1 in 793 | 13K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 9,401as Denis | 1 in 450 | 9.4K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 5,318as Denis | 1 in 395 | 5.3K | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | 4,057as Denis | 1 in 758 | 4K | — | 1 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Danish is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sagacity,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In English, The language of Danes and Denmark.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, wisdom, learning
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Danish Jukniub. 1934ALpainter (1934-2003)
- Danish Nawazb. 1978PKPakistani television director and comedian
- Danish Kaneriab. 1980PKPakistani cricketer
- Danish Siddiquib. 1983INIndian photojournalist (1983-2021)
- Danish Mujtabab. 1988INIndian hockey player
- Danish Saitb. 1988INIndian actor and comedian
- Danish Azad Ansarib. 1988INMember of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
- Danish Atlas Khanb. 1994PKPakistani squash player
- Danish AslamINIndian film director
- Danish ContractorINcomputer scientist at IBM Research
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 961 | #12,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #12,269 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Danish mean, and where does it come from?
- VAL knowledge; wisdom; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How common is the name Danish?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,482 people named Denis in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Danish compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Danish is the 209th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Danish?
- A machine transcription gives /deɪnɪʃ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Danish a male or female name?
- Danish is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Danish?
- In the etymology graph, Danis is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Danish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Danish in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danish.
What do you want to know about Danish?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danishThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Danish” — the 209th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.