Daniell
Daniell was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 2,883 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,750 Americans named Daniell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daniell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daniell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,187, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
129 babies in 1984, the peak
Daniell peaked in 1984, when 129 babies were given it (107 girls, #1,219 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,454 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,840 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,896 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #9,958 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,580 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,069 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,610 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,187 | 11 | #7,162 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,031 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,505 | 14 | #6,059 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #15,277 | 9 | #8,216 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,286 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,317 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,869 | 11 | #7,305 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,958 | 15 | #5,702 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,071 | 9 | #8,134 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,117 | 14 | #5,628 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,031 | 10 | #7,080 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,637 | 17 | #4,644 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,139 | 11 | #6,164 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,837 | 9 | #7,034 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,999 | 13 | #5,343 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,896 | 11 | #5,728 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,392 | 22 | #3,404 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,832 | 12 | #5,010 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,571 | 7 | #7,293 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,249 | 9 | #6,014 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,665 | 9 | #5,951 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,384 | 16 | #3,852 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,394 | 10 | #5,303 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,706 | 7 | #6,655 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,736 | 21 | #2,972 |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,818 | 18 | #3,221 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,355 | 11 | #4,224 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,338 | 25 | #2,280 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,407 | 27 | #2,108 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,349 | 21 | #2,440 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,219 | 22 | #2,309 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,075 | 23 | #2,221 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,568 | 22 | #2,284 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,602 | 24 | #2,146 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,103 | 22 | #2,293 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,629 | 33 | #1,721 |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,512 | 21 | #2,218 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,623 | 23 | #2,079 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,524 | 17 | #2,525 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,383 | 29 | #1,715 |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,399 | 22 | #1,999 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,717 | 24 | #1,827 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,759 | 6 | #4,544 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,552 | 8 | #3,725 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,077 | 12 | #2,765 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,411 | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,648 | 5 | #4,254 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,513 | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,376 | 8 | #3,036 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,390 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,686 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,379 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,098 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,422 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,406 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,069 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,101 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,939 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,153 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,420 |
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 Daniell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,883 Americans recorded as Daniell, 71% are girls and 29% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daniell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daniell, and how old are they?
2,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,883 Americans ever recorded as Daniell. The median Daniell alive today is 41 years old; half are between 34 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,295 people named Daniell (1,652 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,763 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 843 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 386 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66 |
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 Daniell born?
The states with the most babies named Daniell are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 196 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 65 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Daniell 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 11,322 babies since 1880, Daniell is the second most given (25% of them).
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 Daniell
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 Daniell and names like it
- Compare Daniell and DanyelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDaniell peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daniell since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Daniell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Daniell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.