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My middle name is danielle but it is spelled Daniell it don't have an "e" at the end like most people's do.

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We named our daughter Danielle in 1985 because we were living in francophone Africa, and wanted a unique name that worked in both English & French. Alas, next time we got to the States, we learned that Danielle was not unique and had become a VERY popular name! (This was 1985 -- #18 overall that year and even more popular in our home states). Also, people in our part of Africa had never heard of Danielle as a girl's name -- the male name is pronounced the same as the female's in French and everyone kept asking why we gave our daughter a boy's name! (This is spite of the fact that the French president's wife in '85 was named Danièle).
We still love the name tho.

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I've always liked my name, and have never used a nickname, but it's often misspelled and mispronounced. People generally see the name spelled out and assume it's pronounced "Daniel." Or, when I say my name, they spell it as "Daniel." Surprisingly, many people still don't seem to realize they are two separate names!

Overall, I'd highly recommend the name! I see it as timeless (of course, I may be prejudiced! ;)) I have see younger children that share my name, but have never met anyone older than me (29) with it.

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Hi, my name is Danielle aswell, I havent met anyone named Danielle much older than myself, im 22 now. As far as im aware, this name really took off in the 80's, it was very popular then. Growing up, i was generally the only Danielle in class, however i did know another Danielle in my school, a few years older than me.

I also occassional get people thinking its spelled "Daniel" which is annoying, and people thinking it is pronounced as "Daniel". I am from Australia, and prefer it pronounced as "Danny-elle", I really actually hate it when people say it as "Dan-yell", I think it sounds aweful and I cringe when people say it that way.

My friends have nicknamed me Dell, Della, Elle, Dee, and Danni.

Hope this helps any parents to be! xx

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Hi, my name is Danielle also and I am 36. I have 3 close friends also named Danielle near or around my age but no one in my school ever had the same name as me. I was born in the early 70's so I am assuming that is when it started its upward spiral.

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My name is also Danielle and I am 34. I went through my entire school career having only 1 other Danielle in the system. It was kinda nice. None of my teachers ever had to add the first letter of my last name because there were 2 or 3 kids with the same name in one class. When I was in middle school there were like a hundred Stephanies. It was so bad, most of us kids just stopped referring to them by their first names. They just got called by their last names. I have never had that problem and I kinda like it.

Nicknames for Danielle: | Edit

Dani, Dannie, Dana, Dell, Della, Dee, Elle, Dandy, Dan

Meanings and history of the name Danielle: | Edit

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Famous real-life people named Danielle: | Edit

Danielle Steel (author)
Danielle Brisebois (actress)
Danielle Panabaker (actress)

Danielle in song, story & screen: | Edit

Danielle Rousseau, character on "Lost"