Danel
Danel was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 488 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,894, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1969, the peak
Danel peaked in 1969, when 19 babies were given it (8 boys, #3,366 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,894 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,730 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #9,914 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,477 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #9,861 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,030 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,161 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #7,709 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,423 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #9,324 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,236 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,003 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,322 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,144 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,326 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,772 | 7 | #6,810 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,057 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,416 | 6 | #7,359 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,742 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,885 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 10 | #4,305 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,911 | 10 | #4,191 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,789 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,722 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,627 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,565 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,442 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,226 | 6 | #5,492 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,635 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,970 | 8 | #4,242 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,154 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,073 | 10 | #3,487 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,054 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,251 | 8 | #3,768 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,179 | 5 | #5,124 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,747 | 5 | #5,060 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,279 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,485 | 8 | #3,366 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,094 | 7 | #3,316 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,167 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,377 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,741 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,261 | 10 | #2,676 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,004 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,004 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,752 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,844 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,800 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,650 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,790 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 7 | #3,428 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,570 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,446 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,272 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Danel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 488 Americans recorded as Danel, 30% are girls and 70% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Danel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danel, and how old are they?
An estimated 413 Americans named Danel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 33 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,068 people named Danel (259 women and girls, 809 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,006,335 babies since 1880, Danel is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 8,133 babies recorded by SSA was a Danel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Danel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Danel and names like it
- Compare Danel and DanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDanel peaked in 1969.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Danel.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Danel alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.