Danielle
Feminine · “God is my judge”
Danielle is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 371,803 girls against 1,895 boys since 1880. See Danielle as a boy name
The first thing the man behind this name does is refuse the food. Before any lions or any writing on any wall, he is a captive in a foreign court being fed from the king's table, and he asks for vegetables and water instead — and proposes a ten-day trial to prove it will not harm him. Everything else in the book follows from that.
How old is the name Danielle?
Danielle first appears in US birth records in 1937 — 88 years ago. The typical Danielle alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 361,000 people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Danielle most popular?
Danielle peaked in 1987, reaching #14 nationally. Today it ranks #549, 535 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
Where it comes from
From Daniel to Danielle
The story of Danielle
The book ends with a sentence that had not been said before. Its last chapter promises that many of those who sleep in the dust will awake — some to everlasting life and some to shame — and it is the earliest unambiguous statement of a general resurrection anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures. Everything before it is considerably vaguer about what happens afterwards, and the idea arrives here, late, in an apocalyptic book written under persecution. A great deal of what two later religions take for granted is standing on that verse.
Meaning
God is my judge
Hebrew, and the construction is a complete sentence rather than a description. The French feminine ending adds a marker and no sense of its own.
How the name formed
- Daniel
- Danielle
Related forms: Danielle · Daniela · Daniela
Pronouncing Danielle
dan-YELL
Two syllables with the weight at the back, as the French ending requires. American speakers frequently give it three, saying dan-ee-ELL.
Nicknames for Danielle
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
- 1937
- Most girls named
- 198717,010 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #14reached in 1987
- Change vs 2023
- −11.4%550 in 2025, from 621
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.
Danielle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Danielle in French — same name
- Daniela in Italian — same name
- Daniela in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Danielles among us
people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,922 born in 2025 was named Danielle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Christine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Danielle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Christine climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Christine's path sketches the road Danielle is walking now.
Danielle is coming down from a big peak (#14 in 1987). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Danielle is headed
Danielle should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Danielle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Danielle 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 genuine French form rather than an English invention.
- Dani and Elle sit inside it as short forms with different registers.
- The meaning is clear and easy to explain.
- Its peak was very large and very recent, which dates the name to a decade.
- Daniela and Danielle are both standard and get substituted.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Feminine · #549 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Danielles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 361,000 people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Danielle in 2025?
- Danielle ranks #549 among US girl names in 2025, with 550 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Danielle?
- About 1 in every 2,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Danielle — 550 in all.
- Will my child share the name Danielle with classmates?
- Danielle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Danielle
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Holland#549 · Fernanda#551 · Frankie#551 · Capri#546 · Kyomi#546 · Angel#546 · Everlee#545 · Emerie#553
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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