Danniell
Danniell was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 122 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danniell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danniell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,620, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1973, the peak
Danniell peaked in 1973, when 12 girls were given it, #4,615 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #15,620 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,983 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,929 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,839 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,130 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,815 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,731 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,395 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,306 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,747 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,231 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,013 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,673 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,325 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,862 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,615 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danniell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danniell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danniell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danniell, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Danniell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 179 people named Danniell (146 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Danniell rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Danniell?
Danniell is a less common spelling of Danyel: SSA has recorded 122 Danniell and 3,249 Danyel since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,263 babies since 1880, Danniell is the sixth most given (1.1% 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 Danniell
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 Danniell and names like it
- Compare Danniell and DanyelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDanniell peaked in 1973.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Danniell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danniell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.