Danielle
Danielle is ranked 523rd among girls in 2024 (588 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1987.
- Rank in 2024
- #523down 29 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5880.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 198717,009 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1987
- Since 1937
- 373,134people given the name
The story in the numbers
371,239 girls have been named Danielle in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 17,009 births — 0.98% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 588 births in 2024, against 17,009 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 36%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,895 boys have also been given it, 0.51% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Danielle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 169 | |
| 1940s | 881 | |
| 1950s | 1,711 | |
| 1960s | 13,152 | |
| 1970s | 60,919 | |
| 1980s | 134,380 | |
| 1990s | 109,595 | |
| 2000s | 35,626 | |
| 2010s | 11,530 | |
| 2020s | 3,276 |
In 1987, its biggest year
Danielle was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1987 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Danielle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kasipeak 1988
- Shantellepeak 1987
- Aleshapeak 1990
- Terricapeak 1990
- Lashapeak 1991
- Marishapeak 1992
- Caressapeak 1987
- Samathapeak 1989
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.