Danis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Altération de Dany, dérivé de Daniel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/danis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 407K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 35K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 36K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Altération de Dany, dérivé de Daniel.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Danis | 14 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Danis | 26 |
| US United States | 817 | 1 in 407K | 2.7K | Danis | 254 |
| BR Brazil | 287 | 1 in 738K | 287 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Danis | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | 140 | 1 in 36K | 140 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 60 | 1 in 35K | 65 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 20 | 1 in 94K | 20 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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)
Danis 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.
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of Dānī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Divnieks (atzīme skolā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Danis Katranidisb. 1949GRGreek actor
- Danis Boisb. 1949FRFrench association football player
- Danis Salmanb. 1960CYFootballer (born 1960)
- Danis Tanovićb. 1969BABosnian film director and politician
- Danis Garcíab. 1976Dominican Republic sprinter
- Danis Zaripovb. 1981RURussian ice hockey player
- Dany Dannb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench breakdancer
- Christopher Ramírezb. 1990SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran footballer, born 1990
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 76 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 556 | #14,424 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 287 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 261 | #14,424 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 236 | #19,679 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 190 | #26,036 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 140 | #1,758 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 65 | #1,897 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 60 | #995 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #19,679 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 26 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 20 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 20 | #2,647 |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Danis mean, and where does it come from?
- Altération de Dany, dérivé de Daniel. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- How do you pronounce Danis?
- A machine transcription gives /danis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Danis a male or female name?
- Danis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Danis?
- In the etymology graph, Danish is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Danis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Danis in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danis.
- Where is Danis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danis is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Danis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 817 people named Danis in 2020, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danisThe 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, “Danis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.