Danelly
Danelly was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,487 among girls’ names; 497 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danelly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danelly?
#8,487 among girls’ names, 2025
Danelly rose from #12,108 in 2015 to #8,487 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 7.5 per million.
91 babies in 2017, the peak
Danelly peaked in 2017, when 91 girls were given it, #2,117 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,487 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,322 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,332 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,360 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,607 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,080 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,341 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,199 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,117 | 52.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,017 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,108 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,154 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,162 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,239 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,927 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,613 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,619 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,865 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,293 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,647 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,860 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,839 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,723 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,992 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,250 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,087 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,454 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,191 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danelly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danelly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danelly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danelly, and how old are they?
An estimated 493 Americans named Danelly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 362 people named Danelly (360 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Danelly born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,208 | 1.0× |
Where Danelly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danelly is most over-represented in Texas: since 1996 it was given 2.0 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 Danelly 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 423,193 babies since 1880, Danelly is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,261 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Danelly
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 Danelly and names like it
- Compare Danelly and DanielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDanelly peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danelly since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Danelly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Danelly alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.