girls:
66.4k births since 1947
#485 (92nd percentile)
boys:
168 births since 1982
#4418 (4th percentile)
overall:
66.5k births since 1947
#897 (88th percentile)
The name Daniela is the #897 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,530 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #485 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 66,362 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,418 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 168 births since 1982.
Daniela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Daniela is available in 73 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (73 years for girls and 22 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Daniela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Daniela reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 89.1% percentile (ranked #108) with 1,454 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 1,533 births per million (ranked 87.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Daniela ranks #240 for girls (74.7% percentile) with 703 births per million, which is 45.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Daniela reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daniela".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Daniela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.1% confident that Daniela is pronounced as da-NYEH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-NYEH-luh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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