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Daniela vs Daniele

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 4,344 Danieles. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Daniele

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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Daniela for 70 years and Daniele for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Daniela Daniele
Total US births 68,6824,344
Most in one year 3,084156
Babies in 2025 1,0096
Estimated living today 68,0004,100
Median age today 1940
Peak year 20071976
Best rank 108th girls939th girls
Rank in 2025 302nd13,208th
First recorded 19471952
Girls / boys 68,514 / 1683,564 / 780

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 Danieles alive today are over 40; half the Danielas are over 19. That is 21 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 Daniela Daniele
France 2,89584,685
Italy 8,47759,635
England and Wales 1,540392
Switzerland 715451
Poland 86848
Belgium 27324
Ireland 19733
Northern Ireland 63

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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Related comparisons

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