Dhanya

Dhanya was the #13,208 girls' name in the US in 2025 (6 babies), and #4,867 in England & Wales.

Dhanya as a girl’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
  • Canada
Dhanya as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.0518801900192019401960198020002020England & WalesUS
Dhanya as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.051880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & WalesCanada
2025#13,208 (6)#4,867 (4)—
2024#10,271 (9)——
2023#8,989 (11)#5,688 (3)—
2021#10,292 (9)——
2020#8,406 (12)—#3,251 (5)
2019#7,342 (15)#4,001 (5)—
2018#6,792 (17)——
2017#5,821 (21)——
2016#8,393 (13)#5,785 (3)—
2015#7,613 (15)——
2014#8,053 (14)——
2013#6,729 (18)#3,160 (7)—
2012#8,632 (13)#5,876 (3)—
2011#6,564 (19)#4,764 (4)—
2010#8,701 (13)#5,707 (3)#2,878 (6)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 2017 at #5,821.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1998.

How common is it?

about 1 in 250,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

How common, country by country

WhereSexLatest yearShareVerdict
USGirls2025about 1 in 250,000rare
England & WalesGirls2025about 1 in 63,000rare

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
DhanyaCanadaGirls—too few
DhanyaEngland & WalesGirls#4,8674
DhanyaNorthern IrelandGirls—too few
DhanyaUSGirls#13,2086