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The name Dan is of Hebrew origin, and means judge. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dan**
Use of the Name Dan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
103,424	48,142	4,623	809	160	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Dan last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2000, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	98	140
1881	86	148
1882	97	150
1883	109	120
1884	100	151
1885	108	129
1886	102	154
1887	102	140
1888	109	154
1889	119	116
1890	104	160
1891	122	113
1892	114	156
1893	115	143
1894	138	114
1895	164	96
1896	129	133
1897	140	115
1898	142	125
1899	134	119
1900	122	192
1901	140	117
1902	148	124
1903	125	155
1904	136	156
1905	140	153
1906	155	128
1907	145	160
1908	156	152
1909	154	163
1910	164	187
1911	164	202
1912	194	298
1913	183	372
1914	190	449
1915	191	578
1916	192	594
1917	197	596
1918	184	709
1919	176	744
1920	185	770
1921	193	710
1922	175	801
1923	188	734
1924	179	800
1925	184	772
1926	168	872
1927	161	925
1928	164	901
1929	175	801
1930	165	898
1931	164	884
1932	164	917
1933	153	938
1934	154	942
1935	151	1,014
1936	155	961
1937	149	1,031
1938	156	1,039
1939	161	990
1940	155	1,100
1941	152	1,146
1942	147	1,348
1943	139	1,529
1944	143	1,493
1945	127	1,726
1946	116	2,188
1947	109	2,696
1948	115	2,475
1949	125	2,282
1950	129	2,076
1951	136	1,984
1952	129	2,309
1953	139	2,157
1954	139	2,168
1955	136	2,290
1956	132	2,434
1957	121	3,186
1958	109	3,693
1959	110	3,672
1960	111	3,703
1961	115	3,404
1962	119	3,114
1963	124	2,827
1964	139	2,367
1965	155	1,993
1966	174	1,537
1967	184	1,331
1968	191	1,268
1969	212	1,164
1970	233	1,018
1971	250	903
1972	281	679
1973	306	573
1974	354	475
1975	369	444
1976	384	400
1977	402	377
1978	430	340
1979	448	327
1980	460	333
1981	436	358
1982	484	309
1983	501	277
1984	526	263
1985	543	260
1986	545	266
1987	605	223
1988	600	244
1989	650	237
1990	660	233
1991	676	224
1992	715	208
1993	727	203
1994	799	176
1995	830	167
1996	829	172
1997	857	164
1998	951	146
1999
2000	944	160
Totals:		103,424		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dan as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 120 times during the last 125 years.

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