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Dannielle

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dannielle has been given to 4,050 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 1987, with 208 recorded.

Babies named Dannielle, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dannielle: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dannielle means

Dannielle is a given name.

The naming story behind Dannielle

Wikidata records Dannielle as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q124565545, 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, 4,050 girls were recorded with the name Dannielle between 1938 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 208 in 1987; its best national rank was #838 in 1987.

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 Dannielle?

Dannielle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dannielle 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dannielle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dannielles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dannielle was born before 1985 — so the typical Dannielle is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,020
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (1,411).

Is Dannielle 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (208)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#838
1987

Spellings of Dannielle

Dannielle is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 85.2% against Dannielle's 0.93%.

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 Dannielle is used

Across 1910–2025, Dannielle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 69,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 33,333
  4. 4Washington1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 100,000

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. Dannielle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dannielle around the world

Where Dannielle 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
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1987–2004
    #663
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    1986–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • France
    1943–1947
    #1,302
    in 1947
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1968–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dannielle in other languages

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

DanniDanielleDanniella

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

Dannielle 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
—
Best rank ever
#838
1987
Peak year
1987
208 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
4,050
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dannielle

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

DanyelleDanelleDaneilleDannelleDanilleAubrielleDanialleDanielleDanieleChantelleDannyelleDanishaMarybelleChevelleMarielleAbrielleIzabelleShanelleMirabelleChanelleMaribelleMarcelleNichelleRosabelle

Names with a curve like Dannielle

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

KindraTabethaAaronCharissaCristinChantellErinnShastaCorieShantellQuianaCrista

Sibling names for Dannielle

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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