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Danuta

Around 290,000 Polish women carry it, but it's barely given now: just 46 newborn girls last year. Slavic at root, read as "god is my judge".

Danuta Pronunciation

Danuta is pronounced dah-NOO-tah (/daˈnuta/).

Related names
Danka Danusia
Alive in 2025
291,388
Newborns 2025
46
National rank
#35
Next name day
1 October
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What Danuta means

Where Danuta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Danuta grew from Slavic roots, one of a family of names built on the old element dan. Poles gave it familiar shapes early. Danka serves for every day, Danusia for a child or for someone loved.

Henryk Sienkiewicz put a Danusia at the centre of his 1900 novel Krzyżacy. Anna Danuta Jurandówna, daughter of Jurand of Spychów, is barely twelve when the story opens. That book carried the name into thousands of Polish homes, and much of its later popularity traces back to her.

You will also find Danuta glossed as "god is my judge", and in Polish as darowana przez boga. That reading came later, pulled toward the Hebrew Daniel rather than the Slavic root itself. The name keeps several days on the calendar. The busiest falls on 24 June.

When Danuta celebrates name day

Danuta appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 16 February.

Next name day
1 October
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Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Danuta

1 in 77 women in Poland is named Danuta. 291,388 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #35 among female names.

People with the name Danuta 2019 → 2025
291,388 -29,217 since 2019
2020 318,404 -2,201
2021 313,019 -5,385
2022 307,054 -5,965
2023 301,751 -5,303
2024 296,760 -4,991
2025 291,388 -5,372

Danuta's popularity over time

46 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #365 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2006. Still the #35 name among living women, even as it slips to #365 among newborns.

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46 newborns with the name Danuta in 2025
national rank #365 that year

Where Danuta is most popular

Danuta is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 74% above the national average (22 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+39%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+30%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Opole, 76% and 51% below average respectively.

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Danuta as a middle name

Danuta is a first name for 291,388 women in Poland and a middle name for another 129,132, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 20th, between Dorota (133,476) and Stanisława (120,903).

As a first name
291,388
As a middle name
129,132
first name 69% middle name 31%
Middle-name ranking women

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