Danielle
Masculine · “God is my judge”
Danielle is given to girls far more often — 371,803 girls against 1,895 boys since 1880. See Danielle as a girl 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 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Danielle alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,800 people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Danielle most popular?
Danielle peaked in 1985, reaching #884 nationally. See the whole 1985 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
- 1963
- Most boys named
- 1989117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #884reached in 1985
- Change vs 2011
- +33.3%8 in 2012, from 6
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
Danielles among us
people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Danielle sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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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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 1,800 people named Danielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Danielle in 2025?
- Danielle is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Danielle with classmates?
- Danielle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
David#35 · Daniel#22 · Donald#690 · Dennis#707 · Douglas#807 · Dylan#41 · Danny#628 · Dale#1409
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