Danielle

#549 for girls in 2025, 550 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #8,864
Given to girls 99.5% of the time

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Peak · girls
1987 · 17,010 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
34 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
371,803
since 1937

Danielle over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201937peak #14, 1987girls
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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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2024#524588—
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2022#474672—
2021#438709—
2020#448692—
2019#432739—
2018#380818—
2017#351917—
2016#329999—
2015#2951,092—
2014#2631,246—
2013#2591,239—
2012#2321,378#8,8648
2011#2071,500#10,8086
2010#1951,607#9,6937
2009#1671,935—
2008#1412,398#9,0198
2007#1222,779#8,9158
2006#1162,900#6,90411
2005#1023,133#8,2998
2004#913,530#3,07432
2003#823,865#5,27114
2002#714,205#4,91915
2001#634,791#6,44510
2000#486,092#4,06619
1999#436,753#3,37623
1998#417,368#2,71130
1997#348,034#2,98125
1996#299,286#3,02124
1995#2410,653#2,40032
1994#2012,455#2,12338
1993#1812,992#2,05039
1992#1814,098#1,91442
1991#1713,619#1,82343
1990#1814,339#1,30672
1989#1715,366#940117
1988#1716,253#1,22369
1987#1417,010#1,10176
1986#1614,942#1,00385
1985#1815,417#884105
1984#1615,670#96085
1983#2910,634#1,07568
1982#3110,204#1,03976
1981#3010,038#1,06274
1980#338,845#1,00481
1979#337,981#1,04471
1978#317,983#1,22953
1977#317,616#1,12160
1976#337,364#1,12357
1975#426,412#1,25846
1974#406,629#1,09157
1973#495,648#1,12353
1972#734,201#1,45334
1971#993,716#1,59730
1970#1143,368#1,61528
1969#1113,172#2,21715
1968#1332,406#2,31113
1967#1971,617#3,2317
1966#2271,316#3,5376
1965#2351,306#2,61710
1964#2761,053—
1963#363689#4,0485
1962#378616—
1961#373666—
1960#553312—
1959#692209—
1958#801157—
1957#723191—
1956#641221—
1955#684187—
1954#718166—
1953#666181—
1952#660181—
1951#810122—
1950#90996—
1949#813115—
1948#821112—
1947#747131—
1946#681136—
1945#77393—
1944#94567—
1943#96567—
1942#1,03757—
1941#91165—
1940#1,18638—
1939#81172—
1938#73188—
1937#2,9409—
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First appearance
1937

The first year at least five girls were named Danielle! It came in at #2,940, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1937, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.

Where Danielle is popular in 1937

No state had 5 or more girls named Danielle in 1937, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Danielle
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 25 spots since 2024 (#524 → #549)
  • 101 spots since 2020 (#448 → #549)
  • 254 spots since 2015 (#295 → #549)
  • Biggest jump: 2,209 spots in 1938 (#2,940 → #731)
  • Biggest drop: 375 spots in 1940 (#811 → #1,186)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1937
  • Peaked 1987 at #14 (17,010 births)
  • Births halved by 1997, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 34 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 34 yrs · run 1971–2004
  • Top 1,000: 86 yrs · run 1943–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 102
  • Highest: 1 in 102 girls born in 1987 were named Danielle (0.98%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,922 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 36.1% of all girls named Danielle (134,379) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s169#731 (1938)#1,494
1940s881#681 (1946)#888
1950s1,711#641 (1956)#730
1960s13,153#111 (1969)#285
1970s60,918#31 (1978)#55
1980s134,379#14 (1987)#22
1990s109,597#17 (1991)#26
2000s35,628#48 (2000)#100
2010s11,535#195 (2010)#294
2020s3,832#438 (2021)#488

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.

Danielle in 1937

girls
#2,940
9 births · 1 in 118,226 girls

Top girls' names in 1937

  1. #1Mary55,641
  2. #2Barbara34,917
  3. #3Patricia26,838
  4. #4Shirley26,823
  5. #5Betty25,337
  6. #6Carol17,336
  7. #7Nancy17,074
  8. #8Dorothy16,572
  9. #9Joan15,301
  10. #10Margaret15,144
  11. #2,940Danielle9
More about 1937

girls

1,064,033 girls got a published name in 1937; 1 in 118,226 of them was named Danielle, which outranked 40.4% of the 4,930 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Danielle
  1. #2,735Wynette10
  2. #2,735Wyonda10
  3. #2,735Yola10
  4. #2,940Danielle9
  5. #2,940Adah9
  6. #2,940Adelene9
  7. #2,940Agness9
  8. #3,146Adelfa8
  9. #3,146Adena8
  10. #3,146Adina8

Tied with 205 names at #2,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1936
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,217Noreta#4,181 → #964
  2. ↑ 2,845Noretta#3,701 → #856
  3. ↑ 2,351Leilani#3,103 → #752
  4. ↑ 1,407Deann#2,263 → #856
  5. ↑ 1,209Norita#1,741 → #532
Fallers
  1. ↓ 438Dorla#951 → #1,389
  2. ↓ 331Vilma#951 → #1,282
  3. ↓ 303Imelda#979 → #1,282
  4. ↓ 297Lulu#695 → #992
  5. ↓ 292Lyda#840 → #1,132

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

See the top 100 for 1937 →