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Danel

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Form of Daniel

Danel has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Danel, 2020

1 in 557,000

Danel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Danel over time

In 2020, Danel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19202020

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Danel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Daniel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danel means

Danel is a form of Daniel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Danel is used in Basque.

Another recorded pronunciation is /da.ˈnel/ for Danel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Danel is a form of Daniel. Daniel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 341 boys were recorded with the name Danel between 1920 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,676 in 1957.

In the United States, 147 girls were recorded with the name Danel between 1955 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1970; its best national rank was #4,094 in 1967.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Danel?

Danel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danel was born before 1984 — so the typical Danel is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
299
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Choose a decade

1980s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Danel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (10)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,676
1957

Spellings of Danel

Danel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 48.8% against Danel's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Danel around the world

Where Danel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1949–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,676
1957
Peak year
1957
10 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
341
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,094
1967
Peak year
1970
13 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
147
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DannelDanilDanisDaniilDannerDanishDansbyDanyalDanzelDantaDanonDanyelDanyloDanieRonelDaniDanneDangerDangDanuelDanyDannaDanellLyonel

Sibling names for Danel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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