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Daniela vs Danilo

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 4,674 Danilos. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Danilo

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 77 years in which either name was published, Daniela for 70 years and Danilo for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Daniela Danilo
Total US births 68,6824,674
Most in one year 3,084209
Babies in 2025 1,009147
Estimated living today 68,0004,500
Median age today 1913
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 108th girls1,052nd boys
Rank in 2025 302nd1,315th
First recorded 19471946
Girls / boys 68,514 / 1680 / 4,674

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 Danilos are over 13. That is 6 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 Danilo
Italy 8,4777,326
France 2,895515
England and Wales 1,540138
Switzerland 715823
Poland 86831
Belgium 27351
Scotland 1383

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 Danilo.