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Danijela

Girls' name

Feminine form of Daniel

Danijela has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2003, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Danijela, 2008

1 in 786,000

Danijela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danijela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Daniel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danijela means

Danijela is a feminine form of Daniel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Danijela is used in Slovene, Croatian and Serbian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Danijela is a feminine form of Daniel. Daniel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Danijela is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Danijela is pronounced /dǎnijela/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 girls were recorded with the name Danijela between 1977 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2003; its best national rank was #7,717 in 1977.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Danijela?

Danijela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danijela 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danijela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danijelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danijela was born before 2003 — so the typical Danijela is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
79.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 79.4% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Danijela 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 2003 (11)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,717
1977

Spellings of Danijela

Danijela is not the most common spelling — Daniela is, with 57.6% against Danijela's 0.05%.

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.

Danijela around the world

Where Danijela 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.

  • France
    1971–1985
    #2,597
    in 1985
  • Canada
    2005–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1967–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danijela 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
#7,717
1977
Peak year
2003
11 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danijela

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

DannielaDanyelaDangelaDaniylahDanielysDanelaDaneirisDanielisDanilahDannishaDanaijahDaneeshaDaniylaDanishiaDaniellyDannieleDanilynnDanariDanyettaDanalynnDandelionDanaicaDanniellDanaejah

Sibling names for Danijela

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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