Danuta
Danuta is a Polish feminine given name. Its diminutive is Danusia.
- Polish
Meaning & Origin of Danuta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Danuta is a Polish feminine given name. Its diminutive is Danusia.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Polish
The Story of Danuta
Danuta first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1951, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1973: 11 births, good for #4,869 nationwide. About 36% of every Danuta on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Danuta last appeared in the published SSA data in 1995, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 142 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Danuta
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Names that sound like Danuta
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About the name Danuta
Danuta is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1951 and has accumulated 142 births in the dataset. Danuta's peak popularity came in 1973 when it ranked #4,869. Use the chart and map above to compare Danuta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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