Danyell
Danyell was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 2,844 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Danyell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danyell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danyell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,682, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
170 babies in 1974, the peak
Danyell peaked in 1974, when 170 babies were given it (149 girls, #871 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,682 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,878 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,334 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,324 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,849 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,836 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,293 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,836 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,424 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,491 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23 | #5,944 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,184 | 6 | #10,959 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,333 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,613 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,270 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,305 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,626 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,682 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,521 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,535 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,520 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,098 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,591 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 68 | #2,043 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,218 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,395 | 6 | #7,626 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,189 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,101 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,938 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,618 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,499 | 6 | #6,265 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,573 | 9 | #4,543 |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,340 | 11 | #3,846 |
| 1984 | 118 | #1,155 | 13 | #3,308 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,915 | 16 | #2,810 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,925 | 16 | #2,865 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,603 | 19 | #2,512 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,610 | 27 | #2,013 |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,365 | 16 | #2,801 |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,318 | 24 | #2,026 |
| 1977 | 122 | #1,067 | 17 | #2,577 |
| 1976 | 111 | #1,093 | 32 | #1,651 |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,100 | 24 | #1,959 |
| 1974 | 149 | #871 | 21 | #2,062 |
| 1973 | 120 | #991 | 17 | #2,328 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,535 | 15 | #2,452 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,073 | 12 | #2,844 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,045 | 7 | #3,924 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,028 | 5 | #4,525 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,479 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,096 | 5 | #4,080 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,721 | under 5 |
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 Danyell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,844 Americans recorded as Danyell, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Danyell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danyell, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,844 Americans ever recorded as Danyell. The median Danyell alive today is 43 years old; half are between 34 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 2,095 people named Danyell (1,904 women and girls, 191 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 382 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42 |
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 Danyell born?
The states with the most babies named Danyell are California, Michigan and Louisiana, with 46% 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 | 188 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 132 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 94 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 55 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 30 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Danyell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danyell is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1965 it was given 1.2 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 Danyell 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, Danyell is the third 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 Danyell
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 Danyell and names like it
- Compare Danyell and DanyelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDanyell peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danyell since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Danyell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danyell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.