Danyelle
#13,611 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danyelle has been given to 5,806 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #13,611 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 218 recorded.
Babies named Danyelle, 2025
1 in 553,000
Danyelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Danyelle?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,611
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Danyelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danyelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Danyelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danyelle was born before 1990 — so the typical Danyelle is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 29.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,769
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (1,704).
Is Danyelle 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
- −3,140
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,091
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −8,103
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.25×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 2.8%
- Peak was 1992 (218)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Danyelle
Danyelle is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 73.2% against Danyelle's 1.1%.
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 Danyelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Danyelle was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 45,033 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (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. Danyelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Danyelle around the world
Where Danyelle 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 & Wales1996–2007#4,294in 2007
- Scotland1989–1989#576in 1989
- France1921–1921#1,230in 1921
- Canada1991–2001#1,684in 2001
- South Australia1968–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Danyelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Danyelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Danyelle
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danyelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Danyelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.