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UnisexOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: steady

DaniIn Hebrew: דני · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: דָּנִיRomanization: dáni

Dani (Hebrew: דני) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 5,553 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 11 boys and ranked #634. Its peak year was 1976, with 133 babies.

People in Israel
5,553
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
11
rank #634
Peak year
1976
133 babies
USA, 2025
25
rank #4,139

Writing and saying Dani

In Hebrew letters the name is דני, read right to left. Dani is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "dáni" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a diminutive, Dani, of the male given name דָּנִיֵּאל

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Dani by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Dani: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Dani in English-speaking countries

Dani in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202525#4,1392024 (37)
United Kingdom20257#3,0212014 (11)
England and Wales20257#2,9382014 (11)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Dani has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Dani

How do you write Dani in Hebrew?

Dani is written דני in Hebrew (with vowel points: דָּנִי). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "dáni".

How many people in Israel are named Dani?

5,553 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name דני: 784 women and 4,769 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Dani a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 14% of the people named דני are women and 86% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Dani mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a diminutive, Dani, of the male given name דָּנִיֵּאל"

Is Dani used outside Israel?

The name Dani appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,139), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 7 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.