Daniela
Daniela was given to 1,009 girls in 2025, #302 among girls’ names; 68,682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 67,700 Americans named Daniela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daniela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daniela mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daniela is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Feminine form of Daniel.
/dænˈjɛ.lə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daniela?
#302 among girls’ names, 2025
Daniela fell from #201 in 2015 to #302 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.92 to 0.63 per 1,000.
3,084 babies in 2003, the peak
Daniela peaked in 2003, when 3,084 babies were given it (3,076 girls, #112 among girls’ names). The 1,009 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,009 | #302 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | 1,130 | #280 | 0.70 |
| 2023 | 1,231 | #252 | 0.77 |
| 2022 | 1,216 | #256 | 0.74 |
| 2021 | 1,177 | #265 | 0.72 |
| 2020 | 1,283 | #231 | 0.79 |
| 2019 | 1,408 | #218 | 0.84 |
| 2018 | 1,560 | #195 | 0.92 |
| 2017 | 1,590 | #197 | 0.92 |
| 2016 | 1,669 | #196 | 0.94 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,643 | #201 | 0.92 |
| 2014 | 1,496 | #226 | 0.84 |
| 2013 | 1,438 | #223 | 0.82 |
| 2012 | 1,637 | #194 | 0.93 |
| 2011 | 1,870 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 2,038 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,364 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 2,797 | #121 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 3,079 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 2,635 | #132 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 2,654 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,840 | #118 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 3,076 | #112 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 3,026 | #113 | 1.7 |
| 2001 | 2,020 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 2,152 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 2,193 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 1,596 | #195 | 0.90 |
| 1997 | 1,340 | #223 | 0.77 |
| 1996 | 1,121 | #253 | 0.64 |
| 1995 | 1,024 | #267 | 0.58 |
| 1994 | 1,175 | #238 | 0.66 |
| 1993 | 1,254 | #222 | 0.69 |
| 1992 | 968 | #284 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 814 | #327 | 0.43 |
| 1990 | 691 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1989 | 648 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 537 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1987 | 562 | #404 | 0.32 |
| 1986 | 494 | #435 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 417 | #490 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 385 | #510 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 342 | #546 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 292 | #616 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 255 | #679 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 223 | #743 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 193 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 172 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 196 | #770 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 171 | #812 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 143 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 158 | #836 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 151 | #852 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 112 | #1,040 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,166 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,157 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 107 | #1,059 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,249 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,228 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,335 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,229 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,098 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,082 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,927 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,062 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daniela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daniela has been given almost only to girls: 168 boys in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Daniela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daniela, and how old are they?
67,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 68,682 Americans ever recorded as Daniela. The median Daniela alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 78,946 people named Daniela (78,679 women and girls, 267 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61,240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 208 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 37,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,700 |
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 Daniela born?
The states with the most babies named Daniela are California, Texas and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 204 | #147 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 197 | #166 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 81 | #233 | 1.4× |
| New York | 48 | #352 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 42 | #249 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #337 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 31 | #354 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 29 | #240 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 26 | #277 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 25 | #328 | 1.3× |
Where Daniela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daniela is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 1.9 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 Daniela 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 483,469 babies since 1880, Daniela is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,009 of their 2,289 babies (44%), the 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 Daniela
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 Daniela and names like it
- Compare Daniela and DanielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaniela peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daniela since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Daniela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Daniela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daniela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.