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Daniela vs Danity

American parents have registered 68,682 Danielas since 1880, against 184 Danitys. Daniela is still ahead, with 1,009 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daniela against Danity, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daniela Danity

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daniela has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Daniela had 2,369 and Danity had 31.

Side by side

  Daniela Danity
Total US births 68,682184
Most in one year 3,08431
Babies in 2025 1,009under 5
Estimated living today 68,000180
Median age today 1915
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 108th girls4,677th girls
Rank in 2025 302ndunranked
First recorded 19472007
Girls / boys 68,514 / 168184 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Danielas alive today are over 19; half the Danitys are over 15. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daniela and Danity.