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Daniela vs Danthony

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 1,626 Danthonys. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daniela Danthony

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 1970, when Daniela had 100 and Danthony had 6.

Side by side

  Daniela Danthony
Total US births 68,6821,626
Most in one year 3,08480
Babies in 2025 1,00914
Estimated living today 68,0001,600
Median age today 1920
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 108th girls1,811th boys
Rank in 2025 302nd6,143rd
First recorded 19471970
Girls / boys 68,514 / 1680 / 1,626

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.

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