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Daniela vs Daniella

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 33,895 Daniellas. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Daniella

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 76 years in which either name was published, Daniela for 75 years and Daniella for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Daniela Daniella
Total US births 68,68233,895
Most in one year 3,0841,171
Babies in 2025 1,009657
Estimated living today 68,00033,000
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 108th girls288th girls
Rank in 2025 302nd468th
First recorded 19471951
Girls / boys 68,514 / 16833,889 / 6

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.

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 Daniella
England and Wales 1,5404,388
France 2,8952,050
Norway 687318
Poland 86850
Scotland 138312
Belgium 273168
Ireland 197239
Northern Ireland 625

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: Daniela and Daniella.