Danyelle
Danyelle was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,611 among girls’ names; 5,806 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,620 Americans named Danyelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danyelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danyelle?
#13,611 among girls’ names, 2025
Danyelle fell from #5,508 in 2015 to #13,611 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 3.7 per million.
218 babies in 1992, the peak
Danyelle peaked in 1992, when 218 girls were given it, #896 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,611 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,471 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,749 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,862 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,135 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,520 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,835 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,313 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,947 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,840 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,508 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,486 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,787 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,751 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,792 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,835 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,200 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,468 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,259 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,585 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,165 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,070 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,990 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,868 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,806 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,310 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,388 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 136 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 144 | #1,238 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,318 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 188 | #995 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 194 | #955 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 196 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 218 | #896 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 173 | #1,048 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 199 | #947 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 200 | #907 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 180 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 210 | #831 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 167 | #947 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 187 | #858 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 148 | #975 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 107 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,201 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 128 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 123 | #1,073 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 138 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 155 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 154 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 146 | #883 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 142 | #885 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,727 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,474 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,683 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,733 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,170 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,567 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,970 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Danyelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danyelle has been given almost only to girls: 37 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Danyelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danyelle, and how old are they?
5,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,806 Americans ever recorded as Danyelle. The median Danyelle alive today is 36 years old; half are between 28 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 4,798 people named Danyelle (4,770 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,618 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 200 |
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 Danyelle born?
The states with the most babies named Danyelle are California, Texas and Michigan, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 527 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 354 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 324 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 257 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 237 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 206 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 193 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 147 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 143 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 127 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Danyelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danyelle is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1961 it was given 1.4 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 Danyelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Danyelle?
Danyelle is a less common spelling of Danielle: SSA has recorded 5,806 Danyelle and 373,698 Danielle since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 430,795 babies since 1880, Danyelle is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,228 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Danyelle
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 Danyelle and names like it
- Compare Danyelle and DanielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDanyelle peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danyelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Danyelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danyelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.