Dany
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutif de Daniel, du hébreu Daniyyel « Dieu est mon juge »; fêté le 11 décembre
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dany is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.4K
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.9K
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 Dany 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
197,114 named Danny, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Danni in EC Ecuador, PE Peru, CN China and Dannie in US United States.
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)
Diminutif de Daniel, du hébreu Daniyyel « Dieu est mon juge »; fêté le 11 décembre.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dany 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 197,114as Danny | 1 in 1.7K | 196K | Dannie | 344 |
| CN China | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Danni | 57 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 31,728as Danny | 1 in 533 | 30K | Danni | 20 |
| FR France | #419 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 18K | Dany | 318 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Danni | 35 |
| BE Belgium | #291 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 87 | Dany | 88 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3,442as Danny | 1 in 1.5K | 3.4K | — | 9 |
| LA Laos | #149 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Dany | 16 |
197,114 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling danny. 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); INEC — civil registry names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Dany 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 French, Diminutif de Daniel ou Danielle, « Dieu est mon juge ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
French: pet form of DANIÈLE and its variant Danielle .
as a word
In Czech, nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of dan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, past passive participle of daś
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, given (currently discussed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Dany Chamounb. 1934LBLebanese politician (1934-1990)
- Dany Parísb. 1938FRFrench actor and television presenter
- Anne Alvarob. 1951FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Tracy Chamounb. 1960LBnot in their usual nameLebanese writer and political activist
- Dany Verlindenb. 1963BEBelgian footballer
- Dany Garciab. 1968USAmerican film producer and businesswoman
- Dany Verissimob. 1982FRFrench actress
- Dany Nounkeub. 1986CMCameroonian footballer
- Gelson Martinsb. 1995CVnot in their usual namePortuguese and Cape-Verdean association football player
- Dany Motab. 1998PTassociation football player
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 78 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 18K | #752 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2000 | 7.8K | #1,834 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.5K | #345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #4,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 863 | #4,473 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 700 | #696 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 36 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Dany?
- A machine transcription gives /dani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Dany mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutif de Daniel, du hébreu Daniyyel « Dieu est mon juge »; fêté le 11 décembre.
- Is Dany a male or female name?
- Dany 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 Dany?
- In the etymology graph, Dan, Danny and Dana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dany have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 197 thousand people named Danny, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dany?
- 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 Dany compared with other names?
- In Laos, Dany is the 149th most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danyThe 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, “Dany” — the 149th most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.