Danielle
Danielle was given to 550 girls in 2025, #549 among girls’ names; 373,698 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 361,000 Americans named Danielle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 31 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danielle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danielle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Danielle is “a female given name from French, masculine equivalent Daniel.”
Borrowed from French Danielle, the feminine form of Daniel.
/dænˈjɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danielle?
#549 among girls’ names, 2025
Danielle fell from #295 in 2015 to #549 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.61 to 0.34 per 1,000.
17,086 babies in 1987, the peak
Danielle peaked in 1987, when 17,086 babies were given it (17,010 girls, #14 among girls’ names). The 550 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 550 | #549 | 0.34 |
| 2024 | 588 | #525 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | 621 | #494 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 672 | #474 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 709 | #438 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 692 | #448 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 739 | #432 | 0.44 |
| 2018 | 818 | #381 | 0.48 |
| 2017 | 917 | #351 | 0.53 |
| 2016 | 999 | #329 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,092 | #295 | 0.61 |
| 2014 | 1,246 | #263 | 0.70 |
| 2013 | 1,239 | #259 | 0.71 |
| 2012 | 1,378 | #232 | 0.78 |
| 2011 | 1,500 | #207 | 0.85 |
| 2010 | 1,607 | #195 | 0.90 |
| 2009 | 1,935 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 2,398 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 2007 | 2,779 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 2,900 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 3,133 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 2004 | 3,530 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 2003 | 3,865 | #82 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 4,205 | #71 | 2.3 |
| 2001 | 4,791 | #63 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6,092 | #48 | 3.4 |
| 1999 | 6,753 | #43 | 3.8 |
| 1998 | 7,368 | #41 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8,034 | #34 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9,286 | #29 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 10,653 | #24 | 6.1 |
| 1994 | 12,455 | #20 | 7.0 |
| 1993 | 12,992 | #18 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14,098 | #18 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13,619 | #17 | 7.3 |
| 1990 | 14,339 | #18 | 7.6 |
| 1989 | 15,366 | #17 | 8.3 |
| 1988 | 16,253 | #17 | 9.1 |
| 1987 | 17,010 | #14 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 14,942 | #16 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 15,417 | #18 | 9.0 |
| 1984 | 15,670 | #16 | 9.3 |
| 1983 | 10,634 | #29 | 6.4 |
| 1982 | 10,204 | #31 | 6.0 |
| 1981 | 10,038 | #30 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 8,845 | #33 | 5.3 |
| 1979 | 7,981 | #33 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7,983 | #31 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7,616 | #31 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 7,364 | #33 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 6,412 | #42 | 4.4 |
| 1974 | 6,629 | #40 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5,648 | #49 | 3.9 |
| 1972 | 4,201 | #73 | 2.8 |
| 1971 | 3,716 | #99 | 2.2 |
| 1970 | 3,368 | #114 | 1.9 |
| 1969 | 3,172 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 1968 | 2,406 | #133 | 1.5 |
| 1967 | 1,617 | #197 | 1.0 |
| 1966 | 1,316 | #227 | 0.78 |
| 1965 | 1,306 | #235 | 0.74 |
| 1964 | 1,053 | #276 | 0.56 |
| 1963 | 689 | #363 | 0.36 |
| 1962 | 616 | #378 | 0.31 |
| 1961 | 666 | #373 | 0.33 |
| 1960 | 312 | #553 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 209 | #692 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 157 | #800 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 191 | #723 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 221 | #640 | 0.11 |
| 1955 | 187 | #683 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 166 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 181 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 181 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 122 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 96 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 115 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 112 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 131 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 136 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 93 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 67 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 67 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 65 | #911 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,189 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 72 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 88 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,983 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danielle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danielle has been given almost only to girls: 1,895 boys in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danielle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danielle, and how old are they?
361,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 373,698 Americans ever recorded as Danielle. The median Danielle alive today is 38 years old; half are between 31 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 329,075 people named Danielle (327,524 women and girls, 1,551 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 360,508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 258 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,550 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 75,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 208,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 61,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,800 |
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 Danielle born?
The states with the most babies named Danielle are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 65 | #511 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 51 | #617 | 0.6× |
| New York | 30 | #554 | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 29 | #245 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 26 | #659 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 25 | #452 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 24 | #337 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 22 | #513 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #583 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 17 | #396 | 1.0× |
Where Danielle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danielle is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1937 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 Danielle 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 498,500 babies since 1880, Danielle is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 550 of their 2,237 babies (25%), the third 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 Danielle
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 Danielle and names like it
- Compare Danielle and DanielaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDanielle peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danielle since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Danielle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Danielle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danielle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.