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Daniela vs Dannon

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 595 Dannons. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Dannon

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 1979, when Daniela had 193 and Dannon had 54.

Side by side

  Daniela Dannon
Total US births 68,682595
Most in one year 3,08454
Babies in 2025 1,009under 5
Estimated living today 68,000570
Median age today 1935
Peak year 20071979
Best rank 108th girls1,464th boys
Rank in 2025 302ndunranked
First recorded 19471968
Girls / boys 68,514 / 16892 / 503

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 Dannons alive today are over 35; half the Danielas are over 19. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Daniela Dannon
England and Wales 1,5404

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 Dannon.