Daenerys
Daenerys is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 136 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1360.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2018166 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 2012
- 1,356people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,356 girls have been named Daenerys in the United States since 2012, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 166 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2019, and the 2010s alone account for 57%.
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Daenerys was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Daenerys
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harlynnpeak 2017
- Khaleesipeak 2018
- Paisleighpeak 2018
- Theiapeak 2019
- Aryapeak 2019
- Everleypeak 2019
- Harlynpeak 2017
- Harborpeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.