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Daniela

girl name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
4
Peak era
2000s/2010s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

“God is my judge; a current Spain top-15 girls' name”

Goes by Dani. See all nicknames

The story

Daniela is Daniel's daughter in Spanish and Italian, God is my judge underneath, and our meaning records note it still sits in Spain's top fifteen today. The American curve is a clean single arc: about 570 in the 1960s, then 1,500, 4,200, 12,200, cresting at 26,700 in the 2000s, one of the great Hispanic-classic decades in our records, then settling to 16,300 and 7,100 so far this decade. Dani does the everyday work, as our nickname records note. In our records it goes to girls about 68,500 to 170, effectively all girls this decade. The settle is not a fall from grace but the normal breathing of a name whose community carried it up and keeps carrying it: Daniela remains what it has been for forty years, one of the default beautiful choices for a Spanish-speaking daughter.

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Daniela across languages

One shared root links 8 names across 3 languages.

Shared root: from Hebrew Daniyyel "God is my judge", the dream-reading prophet

The constellation

DanielaSpanish · variantDanielEnglish

More branches

DanEnglish · short formDannyEnglish · diminutiveDannieEnglish · variantDanielleFrench · feminine formDaniellaEnglish · variantDaniEnglish · short form

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How popular is Daniela around the world?

In the United States, 7,051 babies were named Daniela between 2020 and 2025. In Mexico City, there were 509 registrations of Daniela in 2022.

Daniela is on the official records of the United States, Mexico City, Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, Montevideo, South Australia, Austria, Canada, Poland, Ireland, England and Wales and France.

Daniela crosses languages: it is in the latest top 300 of a Spanish-speaking record and of Brazil’s 2022 census, which counts people of every age. The full list: Spanish and Portuguese

United States

1 in 3,100

In the United States, 7,051 babies were named Daniela between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 2000s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Daniela peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. Daniela went to 1,643 US babies in 2015 and 1,009 in 2025, 61% of the earlier figure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Mexico City City

1 in 230

In Mexico City, there were 509 registrations of Daniela in 2022.

peak 20022022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (23 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Spain

1 in 590

In Spain, 76,272 residents are named Daniela, the 63rd most common name among women, with a mean age of 17.5 years.
In Spain, Daniela was the 18th most common name among girls born in 2024.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Brazil

1 in 710

At the 2022 census, 285,876 people in Brazil were named Daniela, the 107th most common name, with a median age of 34.
Among people named Daniela living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

1930speak 1980s2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 1,883 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Puerto Rico

1 in 720

In Puerto Rico, 25 babies were named Daniela in 2025, and 1,984 have carried the name since 1998.

1998peak 20062025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Chile

1 in 1,100

In Chile, 167 girls were registered as Daniela in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 19882021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Argentina

1 in 1,400

In Argentina, 457 newborns were given the name Daniela in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Montevideo City

1 in 2,100 · 2011

In Montevideo, 12 girls named Daniela were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

1940peak 19922011

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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South Australia

1 in 4,600 · 2017

In South Australia, 4 girls were registered as Daniela in 2017.

1944peak 19832017

share of that year’s name registrations

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Austria

1 in 11,000

In Austria, 7 girls named Daniela were born in 2025, the 620th most common name among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.

peak 19842025

share of that year’s births on record

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Canada

1 in 11,000

In Canada, 33 girls named Daniela were born in 2024, the 856th most common name among girls that year.

1991peak 20002024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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Poland

1 in 12,000

In Poland, 21 girls named Daniela were born in 2025, the 248th most common name among girls that year.

peak 20002025

share of that year’s name registrations

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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Ireland

1 in 14,000

In Ireland, 4 girls named Daniela were born in 2025, the 718th most common name among girls that year.

1964peak 20082025

share of that year’s name registrations

Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names

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England and Wales

1 in 20,000

In England and Wales, 29 girls named Daniela were born in 2025, ranked 1,133rd among girls that year.

1996peak 20122025

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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France

1 in 26,000

In France, about 25 girls named Daniela were born in 2025, ranked 1,447th among girls that year.

1900peak 19762025

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Norway

last on record 2021

Daniela is not on the 2025 record for Norway, where names carried by fewer than 4 people in a year are withheld at source.

1945peak 19812025

share of the girls on the register for that year, SSB’s own figure

People who have or have had a Norwegian ID number, emigrants left out, from Statistics Norway’s name statistics (release of January 2026): by year of birth for 1945–2020 (everyone born that year who was ever registered in Norway, including people who registered later and people who have since died) and by year of naming from 2021; only first names carried by 200 or more living people are listed, counts under 4 are withheld, and SSB merges spellings that differ only by letters outside the Norwegian alphabet. The shares are SSB’s own, of the people of that sex and year in that count; the 2025 figure counts the children named that year, and no year is a count of births. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 (updated 2026-01-28)

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Scotland

last on record 2023

Daniela is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names

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Not on the record in New Zealand: that registry withholds small counts, so rare uses may sit below its floor.

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When you meet Daniela

Most people given the name Daniela in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

Names that fit alongside Daniela

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Where Daniela travels

Mexican American · a hugely popular feminine form embraced by Mexican-American families

Keep exploring

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