Given name & surname

Danela

Danela is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Danela isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Danela through the years

Babies since 1880
12
0 boys · 12 girls
Most popular year
2009
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Danela in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1997–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 231 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Danela’s family of names

In Greek usage, Danela as a surname is a transliteration of Δανέλα.

Walk Danela’s family in the name graph

DanelaΔανέλαDannelaDanielaDanellaDanilaDanele

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Danela

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Danela, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Danyra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dianela

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Delilha

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dashira

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dannay

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Danaisha

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Dalissa

0Not recently recordedCooling

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Danela’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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