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Danely vs Daniela

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 570 Danelys. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Danely 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 2022, when Danely had 35 and Daniela had 1,221.

Side by side

  Danely Daniela
Total US births 57068,682
Most in one year 443,084
Babies in 2025 271,009
Estimated living today 57068,000
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20172007
Best rank 3,479th girls108th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th302nd
First recorded 19931947
Girls / boys 570 / 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 Danielas alive today are over 19; half the Danelys are over 10. That is 9 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: Danely and Daniela.