Danica

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Danica is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Slavic languages.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 280◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 412
  • RSSerbia1 in 613

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈40K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
209 ●

63K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 280 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

DanicaLatin · Croatian●117K records
ДаницаCyrillic · Macedonian●2.9K records

Locally spelled Даница in MK North Macedonia, BG Bulgaria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from the Slavic languages.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Danica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—15,369△4.7K rec.1 in 22K15KDanica209
HR Croatia#6015,07551K rec.1 in 28015KDanica56
RS Serbia#965,2332.3K rec.—listedDanica51
SI Slovenia#985,107△106 rec.1 in 4125.1KDanica22
PH Philippines—4,9242.7K rec.——Danica61
MK North Macedonia#1222,848△12 rec.1 in 7462.8KДаница12
CA Canada—457350 rec.—4Danica71
CZ Czechia—420—1 in 25K420——
SE Sweden—357△92 rec.1 in 29K357Danica18
GB United Kingdom—293165 rec.—3Danica35
KG Kyrgyzstan—2740 rec.——Danica1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#35320215 rec.——Danica17

Roughly 15K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 22K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian117K43%
  • English69K25%
  • Spanish38K14%
  • Hungarian11K4%
  • Portuguese5.3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian117,20643%
English68,90825%
Spanish37,51714%
Hungarian11,3454%
Portuguese5,3472%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Danica is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name82K records spelled Danica17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Danicà, Daníca, Dànica, Dánica, Dânica

  • Spanish given name50K records spelled Danica13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Dănică, Dănica, Daniça, Danìca, Dánica

  • Czech given name2.7K records spelled Danica3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Danica2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Dánica

  • English given name807 records spelled Danica55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Danika, Dánika, ดานิกา, Denika, Da'Nika

  • Turkish given name289 records spelled Danica4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Daniça, Däniçå

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Danica is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, morning star

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Variantes: Dalialah, Dalilah, Delila, Delilah, Delyla, Delylla, Lila, Lyla

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Latin, inflection of Dānicus:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes 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.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1920194019601980200020201.1K · 2007

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Danica in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1916–2025
Yearrecords
19165
19185
19516
19535
19555
19579
19588
19599
19607
196116
196215
196316
196426
196540
196628
196736
196851
196955
197078
197158
197263
197365
1974105
1975110
1976109
1977152
1978144
1979167
1980161
1981153
1982156
1983172
1984200
1985188
1986165
1987163
1988207
1989328
1990351
1991285
1992267
1993296
1994262
1995234
1996178
1997174
1998167
1999168
2000192
2001142
2002173
2003172
2004204
2005465
2006935
20071,109
2008991
2009861
2010737
2011647
2012599
2013524
2014553
2015403
2016325
2017314
2018263
2019226
2020203
2021233
2022180
2023139
2024137
2025127

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 74 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Danica Ristovski, b. 1955Avril Haines, b. 1969Danica McKellar, b. 1975Danica Jurčová, b. 1976Danica Patrick, b. 1982Danica Roem, b. 1984Danica Ćurčić, b. 1985Nika McGuigan, b. 1986Danica Dillan, b. 1987Nina Radojčić, b. 1989

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Danica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,867
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202115K#63
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202110K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20255.1K#48
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—5K#103
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—591#1,019
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—420#676
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—357#3,484
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—330#3,323
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020287—
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—210#750
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—210#718

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 607 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Danica?
We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Danica (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Danica have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Danica in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled danica.
Where is Danica most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danica is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 280 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Danica compared with other names?
In Croatia, Danica is the 60th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Danica a male or female name?
Danica 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.
What does the name Danica mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Slavic languages.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Danica” — the 60th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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