Danya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Danzig [Gdansk]
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑnjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 100K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 14K
- SESweden1 in 100K
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)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Danzig [Gdansk]
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danya 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.
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Danya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Poland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) 2Dania; Daniah; Danyah: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Danya Segalb. 1958GBBritish record producer
- Danya Daysonb. 1972USAmerican judge
- Danya Abramsb. 1974USAmerican basketball player (born 1974)
- Danya Ruttenbergb. 1975Rabbi and author
- Danya Alhamranib. 1975SAManaging partner in the Saudi company Eggdancer Productions as of May 2013
- Danya Barsalonab. 1988CAfootballer
- Danya Taymorb. 1988USAmerican theatre director
- Danny Mesarošb. 1990CZnot in their usual nameCzech actor
- Danya Sbaib. 1996CHSwiss association 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 52 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Danya mean, and where does it come from?
- Danzig [Gdansk] Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Danya a male or female name?
- Danya 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.
- How do you pronounce Danya?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑnjə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Danya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Danya in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danya.
- How common is the name Danya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,310 people named Danya in 2020, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Danya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danyaThe 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, “Danya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.