# Daan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/daan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | 10,688 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,000 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,226 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |

## People named Daan

- Daan van Dijk, Dutch racing cyclist (1907-1986)
- Daan Hoole, Dutch bicycle racer
- Daan Jippes, cartoonist (born 1945)
- Daan Myngheer, cyclist
- Daan Rots, Dutch association football player
- Daan Olivier, Dutch cyclist and politician
- Daan Frenkel, Dutch physicist
- Daan Breeuwsma, Dutch short-track speed skater
- Daan Heymans, association football player
- Daan Klinkenberg, association football player
- Daan Huisman, Dutch footballer
- Daan Kool, Dutch track cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.