# Dane (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dane/  
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 |
| Origin | Norse |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /deɪn/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 33,979 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33,593 / 386 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 918, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir or Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 9 | 9,000 |
| 1995 | 8 | 9,799 |
| 1996 | 8 | 9,785 |
| 1997 | 12 | 7,384 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,576 |
| 2002 | 11 | 8,997 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,364 |
| 2006 | 7 | 13,946 |
| 2007 | 8 | 12,963 |
| 2008 | 6 | 15,871 |
| 2009 | 7 | 14,056 |
| 2010 | 5 | 17,648 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,089 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,769 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,112 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 574 | 470 |
| 2012 | 573 | 476 |
| 2013 | 482 | 550 |
| 2014 | 423 | 623 |
| 2015 | 424 | 630 |
| 2016 | 355 | 695 |
| 2017 | 313 | 753 |
| 2018 | 315 | 748 |
| 2019 | 253 | 872 |
| 2020 | 273 | 834 |
| 2021 | 285 | 835 |
| 2022 | 277 | 869 |
| 2023 | 258 | 901 |
| 2024 | 276 | 873 |
| 2025 | 301 | 821 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30 | 942 |
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,119 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Dane

- Dane DeHaan, American actor
- Dane Cook, American actor and comedian
- Dane Clark, American film actor (1912-1998)
- Dane Bird-Smith, Australian racewalker (born 1992)
- Dane Scarlett, English footballer
- Dane Rudhyar, French-born American author, composer, and humanistic astrologer (1895–1985)
- Dane Witherspoon, American actor (1957-2014)
- Dane Cameron, American racing driver
- Dane Watts, American basketball player
- Dane Bowers, British singer
- Jared McCain, American basketball player (born 2004)
- Steve Russell, American politician, soldier

## 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.