Boy
Dane
As a boy's name, Dane is understood to mean "from Denmark". It settled in after its 1980s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1986.
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EtymologyMeaning "from Denmark"
Births by decade
1900s
6
1910s
73
1920s
199
1930s
187
1940s
818
1950s
2,499
1960s
2,693
1970s
2,161
1980s
6,898
1990s
5,519
2000s
6,833
2010s
3,834
Peaked in the 1980s · 31,720 total U.S. births since 1900