Danica
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdænɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 41st most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 280(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 743
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Danica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Даница in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from the Slavic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Danica is read(measured from records)
Danica is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English37%
A female given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian31%
morning star
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Danica in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Danica, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danica counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Danica | 64 |
| US United States | — | 15,391 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Danica | 222 |
| HR Croatia | #41 | 15,075 | 1 in 280 | 15K | Danica | 55 |
| RS Serbia | #90 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 743 | listed | Danica | 47 |
| SI Slovenia | #222 | 5,107 | 1 in 412 | 5.1K | Danica | 23 |
| MK North Macedonia | #303 | 2,848as Даница | 1 in 746 | 2.8K | Даница | 15 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #328 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Danica | 17 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Danica is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Danica Ristovskib. 1955RSSerbian actress
- Avril Hainesb. 1969USnot in their usual name7th Director of National Intelligence
- Danica McKellarb. 1975USAmerican actress and writer
- Danica Jurčováb. 1976SKSlovak actress
- Danica Patrickb. 1982USAmerican racecar driver (born 1982)
- Danica Roemb. 1984USAmerican journalist and politician
- Danica Ćurčićb. 1985RSSerbian-born Danish actress
- Nika McGuiganb. 1986IEnot in their usual nameactress
- Danica Dillanb. 1987USAmerican pornographic actress
- Nina Radojčićb. 1989RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,867 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15K | #63 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 10K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5.1K | #48 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5K | #103 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #1,867 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Danica mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Slavic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Danica?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdænɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Danica?
- In the etymology graph, Danika, Denitsa and Denica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Danica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Danica in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, 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 Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- 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.
- How common is the name Danica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,391 people named Danica in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Danica compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Danica is the 41st most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Danica?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danicaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 41st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.