Danyell
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danyell has been given to 2,844 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 149 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Danyell, 2020
1 in 668,000
Danyell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Danyell over time
In 2020, Danyell went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Danyell?
Danyell 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 Danyell sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danyell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Danyells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danyell was born before 1984 — so the typical Danyell is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,520
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (879).
Is Danyell 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 (149)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Danyell
Danyell is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 69.4% against Danyell's 0.47%.
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 Danyell is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Danyell was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 128,728 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Danyell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Danyell is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Danyell was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,561,226 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Danyell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Danyell around the world
Where Danyell 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.
- South Australia1985–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Danyell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Danyell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Danyell
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danyell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Danyell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.