Daniele

Where Daniele comes from

Daniele 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. 1952
    First appearance
    #4,908 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Daniele Massaro born
    Italian association football player
  3. 1976
    Peak, #939
    136 babies named Daniele — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,674.
  5. 1983
    Daniele De Rossi born
    Italian association football player
  6. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Daniele De Rossi · Italian association football player, born 1983
  • Daniele Massaro · Italian association football player, born 1961
  • Daniele Bonera · Italian association football player, born 1981
  • Daniele Rugani · Italian association football player, born 1994
  • Daniele Orsato · Italian football referee, born 1975

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.