Danelle
Danelle was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 7,155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,680 Americans named Danelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 38 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,064, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
265 babies in 1974, the peak
Danelle peaked in 1974, when 265 girls were given it, #597 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13 | #8,064 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,745 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,870 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,728 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,079 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,108 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,649 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,922 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,342 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,110 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,754 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,477 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,747 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,983 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,380 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,937 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,472 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,494 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,272 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,603 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,306 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,819 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,531 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,563 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,636 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,151 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,620 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,430 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,931 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 79 | #1,801 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,633 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,506 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 127 | #1,322 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 127 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 144 | #1,143 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 171 | #972 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 202 | #850 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 222 | #771 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 219 | #772 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 241 | #693 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 215 | #754 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 208 | #783 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 221 | #750 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 218 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 222 | #737 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 226 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 228 | #688 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 237 | #653 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 231 | #657 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 265 | #597 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 222 | #673 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 165 | #816 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 174 | #806 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 172 | #804 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 153 | #836 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 162 | #789 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 133 | #888 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,003 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,025 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 104 | #1,067 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 82 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,293 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 68 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 65 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,027 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,975 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,780 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,526 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danelle has been given almost only to girls: 46 boys in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danelle, and how old are they?
6,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 7,155 Americans ever recorded as Danelle. The median Danelle alive today is 46 years old; half are between 38 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 6,252 people named Danelle (6,127 women and girls, 125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,772 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 646 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 526 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Danelle born?
The states with the most babies named Danelle are California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 993 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 344 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 291 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 228 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 227 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 214 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 208 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 204 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Washington | 180 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Colorado | 163 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Danelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danelle is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1938 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Danelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 430,795 babies since 1880, Danelle is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,228 babies recorded by SSA was a Danelle (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 Danelle
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 Danelle and names like it
- Compare Danelle and DanielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDanelle peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Danelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Danelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.