Meaning not yet researched.
Danielle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 550 in 2025. Its best rank was #14 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #14 in 1987; #549 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danielle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#549 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #14.
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Danielle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 550 girls in 2025. Peak: #14 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 17,010 (1987).
In 2025, 550 US girls were named Danielle, making it the 549th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #525 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 588 girls named Danielle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #14, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17,010. For comparison, it was #295 in 2015 and #909 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danielle in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 9 babies. In all, 373,698 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 135,215 babies named Danielle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,305 US girls were named Danielle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 999. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Danielle ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #222 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Daniela (68,682 babies since 1880), Daniella (33,895 babies since 1880), Danelle (7,155 babies since 1880) and Dannielle (4,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daneille, Dannelle and Danialle are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dani and Ellie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daneille (476), Dannelle (378), Danialle (155), Danylle (128), Dainelle (67), Dannyelle (55), Danyalle (25), Danyielle (15), Dannille (10), Danaelle (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #222 | — |
| Indiana | 29 | #245 | #421 |
| Virginia | 24 | #337 | #269 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #389 | #292 |
| Missouri | 15 | #396 | #232 |
| Arizona | 17 | #396 | #316 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #412 | #464 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #418 | #323 |
| Maryland | 12 | #439 | #207 |
| Iowa | 7 | #451 | #429 |
| Ohio | 25 | #452 | #257 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #455 | #376 |
| Oregon | 7 | #500 | #261 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #508 | #444 |
| California | 65 | #511 | #288 |
| Georgia | 22 | #513 | #241 |
| Kansas | 6 | #514 | #371 |
| Nevada | 5 | #543 | #299 |
| Washington | 12 | #550 | #341 |
| New York | 30 | #554 | #278 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #583 | #305 |
| Colorado | 9 | #599 | #345 |
| Michigan | 13 | #602 | #387 |
| Illinois | 16 | #603 | #245 |
| Texas | 51 | #617 | #244 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #633 | #336 |
| Florida | 26 | #659 | #323 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #675 | #198 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #694 | #546 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #695 | #391 |
| Utah | 5 | #733 | #321 |
| Alabama | 6 | #740 | #456 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #791 | #437 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #873 | #431 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 550 | #549 | — | — |
| 2024 | 588 | #525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 621 | #494 | — | — |
| 2022 | 672 | #474 | — | — |
| 2021 | 709 | #438 | — | — |
| 2020 | 692 | #448 | — | — |
| 2019 | 739 | #432 | — | — |
| 2018 | 818 | #381 | — | — |
| 2017 | 917 | #351 | — | — |
| 2016 | 999 | #329 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,092 | #295 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,246 | #263 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,239 | #259 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,378 | #232 | 8 | #9,037 |
| 2011 | 1,500 | #207 | 6 | #11,138 |
| 2010 | 1,607 | #195 | 7 | #9,909 |
| 2009 | 1,935 | #167 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,398 | #141 | 8 | #9,169 |
| 2007 | 2,779 | #122 | 8 | #9,086 |
| 2006 | 2,900 | #116 | 11 | #7,012 |
| 2005 | 3,133 | #102 | 8 | #8,462 |
| 2004 | 3,530 | #91 | 32 | #3,095 |
| 2003 | 3,865 | #82 | 14 | #5,330 |
| 2002 | 4,205 | #71 | 15 | #4,957 |
| 2001 | 4,791 | #63 | 10 | #6,555 |
| 2000 | 6,092 | #48 | 19 | #4,092 |
| 1999 | 6,753 | #43 | 23 | #3,399 |
| 1998 | 7,368 | #41 | 30 | #2,724 |
| 1997 | 8,034 | #34 | 25 | #2,998 |
| 1996 | 9,286 | #29 | 24 | #3,047 |
| 1995 | 10,653 | #24 | 32 | #2,408 |
| 1994 | 12,455 | #20 | 38 | #2,129 |
| 1993 | 12,992 | #18 | 39 | #2,060 |
| 1992 | 14,098 | #18 | 42 | #1,924 |
| 1991 | 13,619 | #17 | 43 | #1,835 |
| 1990 | 14,339 | #18 | 72 | #1,308 |
| 1989 | 15,366 | #17 | 117 | #941 |
| 1988 | 16,253 | #17 | 69 | #1,230 |
| 1987 | 17,010 | #14 | 76 | #1,101 |
| 1986 | 14,942 | #16 | 85 | #1,004 |
| 1985 | 15,417 | #18 | 105 | #884 |
| 1984 | 15,670 | #16 | 85 | #960 |
| 1983 | 10,634 | #29 | 68 | #1,082 |
| 1982 | 10,204 | #31 | 76 | #1,041 |
| 1981 | 10,038 | #30 | 74 | #1,062 |
| 1980 | 8,845 | #33 | 81 | #1,005 |
| 1979 | 7,981 | #33 | 71 | #1,050 |
| 1978 | 7,983 | #31 | 53 | #1,233 |
| 1977 | 7,616 | #31 | 60 | #1,123 |
| 1976 | 7,364 | #33 | 57 | #1,129 |
| 1975 | 6,412 | #42 | 46 | #1,261 |
| 1974 | 6,629 | #40 | 57 | #1,093 |
| 1973 | 5,648 | #49 | 53 | #1,125 |
| 1972 | 4,201 | #73 | 34 | #1,458 |
| 1971 | 3,716 | #99 | 30 | #1,607 |
| 1970 | 3,368 | #114 | 28 | #1,627 |
| 1969 | 3,172 | #111 | 15 | #2,237 |
| 1968 | 2,406 | #133 | 13 | #2,348 |
| 1967 | 1,617 | #197 | 7 | #3,319 |
| 1966 | 1,316 | #227 | 6 | #3,607 |
| 1965 | 1,306 | #235 | 10 | #2,651 |
| 1964 | 1,053 | #276 | — | — |
| 1963 | 689 | #363 | 5 | #4,171 |
| 1962 | 616 | #378 | — | — |
| 1961 | 666 | #373 | — | — |
| 1960 | 312 | #553 | — | — |
| 1959 | 209 | #692 | — | — |
| 1958 | 157 | #801 | — | — |
| 1957 | 191 | #724 | — | — |
| 1956 | 221 | #641 | — | — |
| 1955 | 187 | #684 | — | — |
| 1954 | 166 | #718 | — | — |
| 1953 | 181 | #666 | — | — |
| 1952 | 181 | #660 | — | — |
| 1951 | 122 | #810 | — | — |
| 1950 | 96 | #909 | — | — |
| 1949 | 115 | #815 | — | — |
| 1948 | 112 | #821 | — | — |
| 1947 | 131 | #748 | — | — |
| 1946 | 136 | #683 | — | — |
| 1945 | 93 | #774 | — | — |
| 1944 | 67 | #946 | — | — |
| 1943 | 67 | #967 | — | — |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1941 | 65 | #911 | — | — |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1939 | 72 | #811 | — | — |
| 1938 | 88 | #731 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,984 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).