first name
DANELLE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,252 people named Danelle, 71.5% reported their origin as White, 11.3% as Black and 8.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 98% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Danelle peaked in 1974, when 265 babies got the name.
At least 7,155 babies have been given the name since 1938. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Danelle by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,245. The largest share of babies named Danelle, 42.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Danelle is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Danelle has been most common in Montana (3.5×), Colorado (3.2×), and Nebraska (2.7×), and least common in North Carolina (0.44×).
4,213 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Danelle, most common first.
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