How popular is the name Danelle?

Danelle ranks 1,559th among girls' names in US records, with 8,385 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 94.

Is Danelle a unisex name?

No. Danelle is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1974, when 314 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Danell, Denel. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,559 of girl names

Pronounced D AH0 N EH1 L (ARPABET)

Danelle is a girls' name, and first appears in 1938. It has been given to 8,385 children — the 1,559th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 94 births across the past decade, against a peak of 314 in a single year. That peak was in 1974.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Danell and Denel — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Danelle and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Danelle?: Danelle ranks 1,559th among girls' names in US records, with 8,385 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 94.
Is Danelle a unisex name?: No. Danelle is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Danelle most popular?: 1974, when 314 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Danelle spelled?: Danell, Denel. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.