Daniya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Дания in RU Russia, US United States, KZ Kazakhstan and 6 more, Данія in UA Ukraine, Dânia in FR France and ดาเนีย in TH Thailand.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Daniya is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name857 records spelled Daniya4 spellings in the group

  Also written Dâniya

• Swahili surname261 records spelled Daniya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria

  Also written Dan'Iya, Dan-Iya

• Turkish name207 records spelled Daniya7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye

  Also written Denmark, Danimarka

• Uzbek given name85 records spelled Daniya9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz

  Also written Дания, Denmark, Daniia

• Thai given name68 records spelled Daniya40 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Russia, India

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Danya, ดานียา, ดาลียา, Daliya, ดาริญา

28 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●

Daniya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In gag, Denmark (a country in Northern Europe)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 112 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daniya?

We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Daniya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Daniya have the most bearers?

Daniya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled дания.

Where is Daniya most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniya is densest in Kazakhstan — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Daniya compared with other names?

In Russia, Daniya is the 388th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.