Danute
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Danute is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 94◐
- LVLatvia1 in 6.3K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30K ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 94 ◐
across 10 countries
1.9K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #65 | 29,090△ | 785 rec. | 1 in 94 | 29K | Danute | 63 |
| LV Latvia | — | 301△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 6.3K | 301 | Danute | 11 |
| US United States | — | 211 | 766 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 211 | Danute | 62 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 111 | 77 rec. | — | — | Danute | 21 |
| BR Brazil | — | 62 | 18 rec. | — | — | Danute | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 53 | 64 rec. | 1 in 944K | 53 | Danute | 12 |
| FR France | — | 25 | 21 rec. | — | — | Danute | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | 24 | 19 rec. | — | — | Danute | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 486K | 21 | Danute | 4 |
| RU Russia | — | 20 | 20 rec. | — | — | Danute | 6 |
| IE Ireland | — | 16 | 17 rec. | — | — | Danute | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | 14 | 6 rec. | — | — | Danute | 10 |
Roughly 29K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 94). 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●
- Lithuanian60K94%
- English1.5K2%
- Latvian3771%
- Spanish3711%
- German3291%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 60,114 | 94% |
| English | 1,531 | 2% |
| Latvian | 377 | 1% |
| Spanish | 371 | 1% |
| German | 329 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Danute 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 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Danutė Čiurlionytė-Zubovienėb. 1910LTLithuanian translator
- Danutė Stanelienėb. 1922LTWWII machine gunner, one of only four women to become full cavalier of Order of Glory (1922–1994)
- Danutė Eidukaitėb. 1929LTLithuanian artist (1929-1995)
- Danutė Juronytė-Zelčiuvienėb. 1933LTLithuanian actress (1933-2015)
- Danutė Bekintienėb. 1944LTLithuanian politician
- Danutė Aleksiūnienėb. 1952LTLithuanian politician
- Danutė Budreikaitėb. 1953LTLithuanian politician
- Danutė Kuodytėb. 1956actress
- Danute Bankaitis-Davisb. 1958USAmerican racing cyclist (1958-2021)
- Danutė Domikaitytėb. 1995LTLithuanian amateur wrestler
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 301 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 301 | #747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 211 | #36,633 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 194 | #4,893 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 53 | #26,489 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51 | #12,109 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,044 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #26,392 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #24,801 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 51 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Danute?
- We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Danute (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Danute have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 29 thousand people bear Danute in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled danute.
- Where is Danute most common?
- Danute is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 94 people carrying it.
- How common is Danute compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Danute is the 65th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Danute a male or female name?
- Danute 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Danute” — the 65th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.