Danny
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name from Old French daneis ‘Danish’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dæni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Zambia it is the 59th most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 867(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 871
- ZMZambia≈1 in 928
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #556 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 609 (measured from records)
- 1 in 533 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ethnic name from Old French daneis ‘Danish’.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danny 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Danny | 72 |
| US United States | #247 | 197,114 | 1 in 1.7K | 196K | Danny | 609 |
| PH Philippines | #418 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Danny | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | #234 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 23 | Danny | 324 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 31,728 | 1 in 533 | 30K | Danny | 71 |
| ZM Zambia | #59 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 928 | — | Danny | 27 |
| BE Belgium | #225 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 867 | 87 | Danny | 143 |
| HK Hong Kong | #105 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 871 | — | Danny | 80 |
| SG Singapore | #103 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 966 | — | Danny | 126 |
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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); INEC — civil registry names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Danny is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Danny är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till → Daniel. En känd nutida svensk namnbärare är artisten Danny (egentligen Daniel) Saucedo (f. 1986). Runt förra sekelskiftet gavs namnet till kvinnor tillsammans med andra namn som slutade på -ny, t.ex. → Jenny.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Dano-Norwegian [Bokmal]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, literary Norwegian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Pet form of Dan.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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)
- Danny Aiellob. 1933USAmerican actor
- Danny Trejob. 1944USNative Mexican-American character actor
- Danny Gloverb. 1946USAmerican actor (born 1946)
- Danny Mannb. 1951USAmerican voice actor, writer, singer, musician, and production manager
- Danny Boyleb. 1956GBEnglish filmmaker
- Danny Hustonb. 1962ITAmerican actor, director
- Danny Woodburnb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Danny Welbeckb. 1990GBEnglish association football player (born 1990)
- Danny Roseb. 1990GBEnglish footballer (born 1990)
- Danny Wardb. 1993GBWelsh association football player (born 1993)
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 111 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 196K | #282 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 30K | #81 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.7K | #680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #282 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 445 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 140 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 23 | #103 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Danny a male or female name?
- Danny 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 Danny?
- In the etymology graph, Dan, Danilo and Daniele are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Daniel.
- What does the name Danny mean, and where does it come from?
- ethnic name from Old French daneis ‘Danish’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How common is the name Danny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 197,114 people named Danny in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Danny compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Danny is the 59th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Danny?
- A machine transcription gives /dæni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Danny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Danny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danny.
- Where is Danny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danny is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 533 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Danny?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dannyThe 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, “Danny” — the 59th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.