Daniele
Feminine · “God is my judge”
Daniele is given to both — 3,564 girls and 780 boys since 1880. See Daniele as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Daniele is a man's name in Italy and a woman's name in France, and both countries are entirely right. Italian keeps the Latin masculine ending; French adds a silent e to make a feminine and puts an accent on the one before it. Strip the accent, as American records do, and the two collapse into one spelling — which is why this name is recorded here for both.
How old is the name Daniele?
Daniele first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Daniele alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 3,400 people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daniele most popular?
Daniele peaked in 1976, reaching #939 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 12,269 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Daniyyel to Daniele
The story of Daniele
Daniel is a court official in Babylon in the book that carries his name, and every famous scene in it — the writing on the wall, the fiery furnace, the lions — happens inside palace politics. The name spread through Christian Europe and every language made its own forms. Italian arrived at Daniele for men, French at Danièle for women, and the two look identical once an American form strips the accent. That is not a mistake anyone made; it is what happens when a filing system has no room for diacritics.
Meaning
God is my judge
From the Hebrew Daniyyel, joining the word for judge to el, the older Semitic word for God. It is a complete sentence rather than a description, and it is a claim about where judgment properly comes from — which fits the book it belongs to, where the hero spends his career being judged by kings.
How the name formed
- Daniyyel
- Daniel
- Daniele
Related forms: Daniele · Danièle · Daniela · Daniyyel · Daniil
Pronouncing Daniele
dan-YELL
Two syllables in the French reading, with the stress at the back. Italian says it in four — da-nee-EH-leh — with the final e sounded, because Italian sounds every vowel. American families use the French shape almost universally.
Nicknames for Daniele
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1952
- Most girls named
- 1976136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #939reached in 1976
- Change vs 2021
- +20.0%6 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daniele in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daniele in Italian — same name
- Danièle in French — same name
- Daniela in Spanish — same name
- Daniyyel in Hebrew — transliteration
- Daniil in Russian — same name
Danieles among us
people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Daniele
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daniele
- #13208
- Daniele on the 2025 chart
- #481
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daniele went to 6 girls in 2025, but Danielle and Danyelle are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 562, which makes it the 481st most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,727 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,860 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Daniele itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Regena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daniele's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Regena climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Regena's path sketches the road Daniele is walking now.
Daniele sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Daniele beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daniele in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a standard name in two European languages rather than a variation on one.
- Dani is available and works in every language the name appears in.
- The meaning is a complete sentence and takes four words to give.
- It genuinely works for a child of either sex, and two countries prove it.
- Danielle is the standard American women's spelling and will be written instead.
- In Italy the name is a man's, which causes real confusion on international paperwork.
- Nearly every child given this spelling in America is a girl, so a boy carrying the Italian form will meet the assumption constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danieles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daniele?
- Daniele is one of 3 recorded spellings. Danielle is the more common one — 550 births in 2025 against 6 for Daniele.
- How popular is the name Daniele in 2025?
- Daniele ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daniele?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Daniele — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daniele with classmates?
- Daniele will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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