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Dangelo vs Daniela

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 9,405 Dangelos. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dangelo 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 1996, when Dangelo had 604 and Daniela had 1,121.

Side by side

  Dangelo Daniela
Total US births 9,40568,682
Most in one year 6043,084
Babies in 2025 1821,009
Estimated living today 9,20068,000
Median age today 2119
Peak year 19962007
Best rank 390th boys108th girls
Rank in 2025 1,154th302nd
First recorded 19631947
Girls / boys 0 / 9,40568,514 / 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 Dangelos 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dangelo Daniela
England and Wales 88 D'angelo1,540

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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