Danell

Last seen for girls in 2013 at #14,582 · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #10,863
Given to girls 74.5% of the time

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Peak · girls
1968 · 46 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,266
since 1941

Danell over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941peak #1,728, 1968peak #2,311, 1968girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
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2022—#10,8636
2021——
2020—#9,5547
2019—#12,1455
2018—#5,32017
2017—#6,33813
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2014—#12,1085
2013#14,5826#9,6557
2012—#6,00114
2011—#12,2875
2010—#10,7666
2009—#8,9858
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2007—#12,3675
2006—#7,9989
2005#14,5026#9,1157
2004#12,7617#9,9486
2003#12,4087—
2002#11,1088#7,0559
2001#12,0567—
2000#9,8749#6,8399
1999#10,3458#7,8747
1998#12,4266#9,6315
1997#13,7245#9,2655
1996#6,72313#9,0155
1995#7,04112#7,7926
1994#7,60411—
1993#7,49811#5,00211
1992#7,06712—
1991#5,39917#6,5197
1990#10,1937#5,8238
1989#7,44910#5,1659
1988#6,66611#4,7869
1987#5,92312#5,4597
1986#4,34718#6,7215
1985#3,62123#3,80511
1984#3,99019#3,45912
1983#2,85330#3,07114
1982#3,89820—
1981#3,73921#4,5098
1980#3,06928#2,96515
1979#2,38739#3,56911
1978#2,19142#3,40011
1977#1,85754#3,03713
1976#2,17439#3,26411
1975#2,27836#2,36118
1974#1,80149#3,5589
1973#1,88544#3,4459
1972#2,39830#3,15210
1971#2,06440#3,6588
1970#2,24035—
1969#1,98040#2,86110
1968#1,72846#2,31113
1967#1,75143#2,9858
1966#1,91636#3,2497
1965#1,95035#3,5376
1964#2,41226—
1963#2,09432—
1962#2,07332—
1961#2,29927—
1960#2,09730—
1959#2,10829—
1958#2,66319—
1957#2,34723#3,0248
1956#3,04815—
1955#4,0699—
1954#3,49011—
1953#4,2268—
1952#4,1238—
1951#5,4145—
1950#3,6629—
1949#4,6736—
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1947#5,2955—
1946#3,4309—
1945#4,0256—
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First appearance
1941

The first year at least five girls were named Danell! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1941–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Danell is popular in 1941

No state had 5 or more girls named Danell in 1941, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Danell
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2013
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1941
  • Peaked 1968 at #1,728 (46 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 28,392
  • Highest: 1 in 28,392 girls born in 1977 were named Danell (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 292,458 girls born in 2013 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,728 in 1968, was only 1 in 35,661 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 32.2% of all girls named Danell (408) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2005
  • Mostly girls until 2004, mostly boys since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s31#3,430 (1946)#4,369
1950s136#2,108 (1959)#3,515
1960s347#1,728 (1968)#2,030
1970s408#1,801 (1974)#2,128
1980s192#2,853 (1983)#4,556
1990s102#5,399 (1991)#8,802
2000s44#9,874 (2000)#12,118
2010s6#14,582 (2013)#14,582

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Danell in 1941

girls
#4,420
5 births · 1 in 241,624 girls

Top girls' names in 1941

  1. #1Mary58,048
  2. #2Barbara39,543
  3. #3Patricia36,905
  4. #4Carol24,187
  5. #5Linda23,721
  6. #6Judith23,320
  7. #7Betty20,905
  8. #8Nancy20,885
  9. #9Sandra19,500
  10. #10Shirley16,954
  11. #4,420Danell5
More about 1941

girls

1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 241,624 of them was named Danell, which outranked 13.1% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Danell
  1. #3,954Zeola6
  2. #3,954Zilphia6
  3. #3,954Zonia6
  4. #4,420Danell5
  5. #4,420Adah5
  6. #4,420Adonna5
  7. #4,420Adra5

Tied with 665 names at #4,420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,130Jerilyn#2,737 → #607
  2. ↑ 1,258Trina#2,109 → #851
  3. ↑ 372Karan#1,347 → #975
  4. ↑ 371Kristine#1,313 → #942
  5. ↑ 356Sherri#1,186 → #830
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Kenneth#971 → #1,418
  2. ↓ 421Janna#997 → #1,418
  3. ↓ 366Beatriz#989 → #1,355
  4. ↓ 338Merna#997 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 337Eldora#957 → #1,294

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1941 →