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Daniela vs Danitza

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 1,059 Danitzas. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Danitza

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 1980, when Daniela had 223 and Danitza had 12.

Side by side

  Daniela Danitza
Total US births 68,6821,059
Most in one year 3,08442
Babies in 2025 1,00921
Estimated living today 68,0001,000
Median age today 1919
Peak year 20072004
Best rank 108th girls3,490th girls
Rank in 2025 302nd5,722nd
First recorded 19471980
Girls / boys 68,514 / 1681,059 / 0

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 Danitza
France 2,89575

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 Danitza.