Danell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Danell

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,266 babies named Danell between 1941 and 2013, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Danell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Danell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 434 additional births since 1957.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Danell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 408 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Danell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 123 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Danell in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Danell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,266 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.