Daniela
Daniela reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 108, and has been recorded 68,682 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 302nd. About 68,000 Danielas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Daniela boys named Daniela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 68,682
- Estimated living today
- 68,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 108th
- Rank in 2025
- 302nd
- First recorded
- 1947
- Girls / boys
- 68,514 / 168
How old the living Danielas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 68,682 babies given the name since 1947, about 68,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 28,000 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Feminine form of Daniel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Danielas
- Daniela Hantuchová (born 1983)Slovak tennis player
- Daniela Melchior (born 1996)Portuguese actress
- Daniela Bianchi (born 1942)Italian actress
- Daniela Ruah (born 1983)American-Portuguese actress and director
- Daniela Mercury (born 1965)Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (born 1983)Austrian ski jumper
- Daniela Romo (born 1959)Mexican singer and actor
- Daniela Silivaș (born 1972)Romanian artistic gymnast
People named Daniela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Daniela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Daniela is most concentrated in Nevada (3.2×), Arizona (2.8×), California (2.7×), Texas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Daniela peaked:
Daniela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Daniela | 59,887 | 4th |
| Austria girls | Daniela | 10,661 | 1st |
| Italy girls | Daniela | 8,477 | — |
| France girls | Daniela +2 spellings | 2,895 | 321st |
| England and Wales girls | Daniela | 1,540 | 573rd |
| Poland girls | Daniela | 868 birth registrations | 116th |
| Switzerland girls | Daniela | 715 | 82nd |
| Norway girls | Daniela | 687 | 206th |
| Sweden girls | Daniela | 297 | 84th |
| Belgium girls | Daniela | 273 | 543rd |
| Ireland girls | Daniela | 197 | 323rd |
| Scotland girls | Daniela | 138 | 291st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Daniela | 6 | 430th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Daniela: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Daniela | 469 | 0.038% | 73rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Daniela | 217 | 0.050% | 106th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Daniela | 27 | 0.041% | 40th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Daniela | 2 | 0.054% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Daniela is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.06% of children were given it – 59 of them.
Daniela: rank by region
In 2025, Daniela was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Daniela | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Daniela | 399 | 6 |
In 2024, Daniela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castilla y León | Daniela | 10 | 75 |
In 2015, Daniela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Daniela | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Daniela was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Daniela | 234 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Daniela | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Daniela | 194 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Daniela | 217 | 5 |
| Opolskie | Daniela | 123 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Daniela | 204 | 3 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Daniela appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (208th) and Province of Antwerp (334th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Daniela by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 10 | 367th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Daniela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Daniela +1 spelling | 1,199 | 2,572 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Daniela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 76,272 women called Daniela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Daniela | 3,120 | 4.869 | 40 |
| Cantabria | Daniela | 1,316 | 4.298 | 47 |
| Sevilla | Daniela | 4,353 | 4.295 | 47 |
| Huelva | Daniela | 1,160 | 4.274 | 45 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Daniela | 2,245 | 4.050 | 26 |
| Málaga | Daniela | 3,682 | 4.017 | 45 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Daniela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.