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Daniell

The girl's name Daniell has been in the national records since 1951, with 2,883 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 2,800 Daniells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Daniell boys named Daniell

Girls and boys called Daniell

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,047 girls and 836 boys in all, and in 2004 the split was 20 to 10.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 35 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,883
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
40
Peak year
1984
Best rank
1,216th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1951
Girls / boys
2,047 / 836

How old the living Daniells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,883 babies given the name since 1951, about 2,800 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Daniell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Daniell is most concentrated in Louisiana (5.4×), California (3.0×), New Jersey (1.7×), Illinois (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1984

The most popular girls’ names the year Daniell peaked:

All the names of 1984

Related names

Daniell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.