Danelle

Where Danelle comes from

Danelle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1938
    First appearance
    #3,450 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Danelle Umstead born
    American paralympic alpine skier
  3. 1974
    Peak, #597
    265 babies named Danelle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,279.
  5. 1995
    Danelle Wentzel born
    South Africaa archer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Danelle Umstead · American paralympic alpine skier, born 1972
  • Danelle Wentzel · South Africaa archer, born 1995
  • Danelle Tan · Singaporean footballer, born 2004
  • Danelle Barrett · U.S. Navy admiral, 1967–2024
  • Danelle Sandoval · American singer-songwriter, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.