The French feminine form of Daniel, Danielle comes from the Hebrew name Daniyyel meaning ‘God is my judge’. It consists of ‘din’ meaning ‘to judge’ and ‘el’ meaning ‘God’.
Danielle is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Danielle isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Danielle ranks 317. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Danielle. In total, there are currently 367,009 people – children, adults and seniors – named Danielle living in the United States, which is approximately 0.11 % of the entire population.
This was a real surprise! Danielle is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #14 in the year 1987, when 17,083 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Danielle much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Danielle was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Danielle ranked 437 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 667 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Danielle will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Danielle. Because: There are women and girls named Danielle in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Danielle is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Nevada, where Danielle ranks on place 37. The greatest chance of meeting Danielle, however, is in Alaska, where one in 197 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 421 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,116 women and girls for their name before you once get Danielle as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Danielle is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Danielle and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Danielle, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Danielle
Danielle
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
L
L
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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L
L
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Danielle sounds like this:
