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Danasia vs Daniela

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 1,384 Danasias. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Danasia against Daniela, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Danasia Daniela

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daniela has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Danasia had 73 and Daniela had 2,034.

Side by side

  Danasia Daniela
Total US births 1,38468,682
Most in one year 943,084
Babies in 2025 81,009
Estimated living today 1,40068,000
Median age today 2119
Peak year 20052007
Best rank 2,004th girls108th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th302nd
First recorded 19881947
Girls / boys 1,384 / 068,514 / 168

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Danasias alive today are over 21; half the Danielas are over 19. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Danasia and Daniela.