Thoughts on the name Danielle

[MacauliflowerCulkin]

Danielle / Daniella for a girl?

(Not for me, sat with pregnant friends chatting about names)

Its my 60 year old Mums middle name.
But also my 30+ something cousins name too! Haven't heard it apart from them two.

Don't like it, it's dated. I'm in my 30s and went to school with Danielles. It's along the lines of names like Becky/Laura/Kirsty for me, all common names of women my age.

I think in England, Danielle sounds dated but Dani is quite cool. I know a teen girl called this, not sure if that's her name or an abbreviation. I think it's needs another generation to pass before it gets used again.
Danielle probably sounds nicer in France.
Daniel for a boy is lovely. Dan/Danny

You don't hear it much these days, in fact I wasn't at school with any either.
It's actually different to the usual, and Dani is a cute nickname, I'd say go for it if you like it.

Nope as she'll be called Dan or Dani by everyone bar you.

It's nice enough just out of fashion. Isabelle took its place

No, no, it did not. Isabelle follows a trajectory, from late 1960s to 2010s of something like: Elizabeth / Charlotte / Chloe / Sophie / Isabelle.

Whereas Danielle is part of something like:
Jacqueline / Melanie / Danielle / Chantelle / Rochelle

In between the two is the popular, ubiquitous line of something like:
Debbie / Karen / Joanne / Sarah / Emily / Olivia

The older members of the first group, at school in the 80s/90s, are friends with Jessica, Anna, Rebecca, Catherine and Eleanor.

The second with Julie, Donna, Kay, Michelle, Gemma and Hayley.

The third with Nicola, Alison, Emma, Natalie and Rachel.

I'd concede that as some names have become uber-popular, like Charlotte / Olivia / Isabelle, then perhaps they've transcended social boundaries, so that a 'would have been Danielle' could now become an Isabelle. Danielle itself did not transcend though.

My point is that, in the UK, Danielle is not just very, very dated, in a 'had one moment of fame and is never likely to return' kind of way but also that that generation is now in their 40s and 50s, so not distant enough for nostalgia or revival and that it is linked to a particular social milieu, in a way that perhaps it isn't in France (and that Daniel certainly isn't, it's fairly classless).

I also think it can easily be pronounced in a really whiney sounding way, if called out loud, 'Dan-Yeah-ull'. I don't like that yeah sound in the middle.

Daniela is quite a different name.

My daughter is called Danielle but she gets called Danni! Don't think we've ever called her Danielle we've always shortened it

We had a Danielle in my class at primary school.

I can still remember the rhyme 'Danielle, do you smell'....

I think it's dated. Popular in the 1980s and a bit chavvy.

I did know a very posh Daniella and work with a part Italian Daniela and the slightly different ending seems to transform the name into something much more elegant. It may be because I associate it with those particular people but I also think it increases the chance that all the syllables are enunciated correctly so the risk of Dan-yell truncation is lower!

@MacauliflowerCulkin

I'm sort of the messenger here.

But she loves Dannie for a girl and Danny for a boy.

(Their boy name will be Daniel if she has a boy)

Her husband is half French if that helps!

I've just suggested Louella but it went down like a fart in a lift 😁

Sorry but Louella is awful.

Danielle is horrible...
Daniella is so much nicer

Depends on how it’s pronounced.

DaniELLE is nice. But round me it’s pronounced Dannn-yell, which isn’t nice.

No

@AbsentmindedWoman

Can somebody phonetically write the French pronunciation, I'm a bit dim

Dan-ee- yelle but it Brum town it's always Danyell - I hate that pronounciation

Just sounds tacky to me. Was the rough girls at school in the 00s

@polavary

Just sounds tacky to me. Was the rough girls at school in the 00s

It really is

Not keen sorry, dated and Dan-yell doesn't sound nice. Sorry

@lottiegarbanzo

It's nice enough just out of fashion. Isabelle took its place

No, no, it did not. Isabelle follows a trajectory, from late 1960s to 2010s of something like: Elizabeth / Charlotte / Chloe / Sophie / Isabelle.

Whereas Danielle is part of something like:
Jacqueline / Melanie / Danielle / Chantelle / Rochelle

In between the two is the popular, ubiquitous line of something like:
Debbie / Karen / Joanne / Sarah / Emily / Olivia

The older members of the first group, at school in the 80s/90s, are friends with Jessica, Anna, Rebecca, Catherine and Eleanor.

The second with Julie, Donna, Kay, Michelle, Gemma and Hayley.

The third with Nicola, Alison, Emma, Natalie and Rachel.

I'd concede that as some names have become uber-popular, like Charlotte / Olivia / Isabelle, then perhaps they've transcended social boundaries, so that a 'would have been Danielle' could now become an Isabelle. Danielle itself did not transcend though.

My point is that, in the UK, Danielle is not just very, very dated, in a 'had one moment of fame and is never likely to return' kind of way but also that that generation is now in their 40s and 50s, so not distant enough for nostalgia or revival and that it is linked to a particular social milieu, in a way that perhaps it isn't in France (and that Daniel certainly isn't, it's fairly classless).

I also think it can easily be pronounced in a really whiney sounding way, if called out loud, 'Dan-Yeah-ull'. I don't like that yeah sound in the middle.

Daniela is quite a different name.

Yeah, yeah, Isabelle will go the way of Danielle.

Daniela (Danee -ela) is a lovely name.

Very 80s. Makes me think of Danielle Lloyd.

Chavvy