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Danelle

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Danelle has been given to 7,155 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 265 recorded.

Babies named Danelle, 2024

1 in 257,000

Danelle over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danelle: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danelle means

Danelle is a given name.

The naming story behind Danelle

Wikidata records Danelle as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q50383665, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,109 girls were recorded with the name Danelle between 1938 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 265 in 1974; its best national rank was #597 in 1974.

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Danelle between 1972 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1978; its best national rank was #3,660 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Danelle?

Danelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 257,000
13 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 125,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
178,236 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danelle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 178,236 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danelle was born before 1979 — so the typical Danelle is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,959
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1970s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (2,142).

Is Danelle rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (265)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#597
1974

Spellings of Danelle

Danelle is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 62.3% against Danelle's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Danelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Danelle was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 32,203 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 10,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 11,111
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 14,286
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 14,286
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6California1 in 16,667
  7. 7Iowa1 in 16,667
  8. 8Arizona1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Danelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danelle around the world

Where Danelle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1978–1978
    #520
    in 1978
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1964–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Danelle

People whose public names include Danelle, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Danelle in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Danelle. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaneleDanellaDanielleDanèle

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Danelle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#597
1974
Peak year
1974
265 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7,109
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,660
1978
Peak year
1978
10 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danelle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DanyelleDannielleDanilleDanetteDanieleDanielDaneilleDanielleDanishaDanikaDannelleJenelleNicolleDaniyahKamilleDanylleMozelleDanaeDanicaDanasiaDaniaDannieDanitzaJonelle

Names with a curve like Danelle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

StephenieMellissaHolliAdrianeCoryJenniChristalNikiSharaBrianCheriseChiquita

Sibling names for Danelle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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