girls:
7.1k births since 1938
#1942 (66th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1972
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
7.1k births since 1938
#3196 (59th percentile)
The name Danelle is the #3,196 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,140 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 58.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,942 (66.0% percentile) for all time with 7,094 births since 1938. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1972.
Danelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (1938 for girls and 1972 for boys).
The name Danelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Danelle reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 33.6% percentile (ranked #496) with 169 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 169 births per million (ranked 33.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 1983, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Danelle ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Danelle reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #671) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danelle".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Danelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Danelle is pronounced as duh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is da-NEHL, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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