girls:
2k births since 1965
#3788 (34th percentile)
boys:
831 births since 1951
#3756 (18th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1951
#5041 (35th percentile)
The name Daniell is the #5,041 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,878 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 34.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,788 (33.7% percentile) for all time with 2,047 births since 1965. For boys, it ranks #3,756 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 831 births since 1951.
Daniell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for boys and 1965 for girls). Birth data for Daniell is available in 66 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 47 years for girls). 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 Daniell has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Daniell were girls.
For girls, Daniell reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 13.0% percentile (ranked #686) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 59 births per million (ranked 13.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
For boys, Daniell reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #661) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Daniell ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 27.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daniell".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Daniell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Daniell is pronounced as DA-nyuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-NEEL, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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