“The name comes from a comic character drawn by group member Dawn Angelique Richard, who says,

‘We were in the studio and I actually draw comics, and Diddy had been throwing some names at us – Courage, Trust, Beauty – but we want our name to mean something. Diddy looked at the superhero that was the anime that I drew and he was like, ‘What’s the name of that character?’ I was like, ‘Danity Kane,’ and said, ‘Yo, that’s dope, you guys can be five superheroes; five girls representing courage, representing all those things in one.’”