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Danial

#8,398 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Daniyal

Danial has been given to 9,474 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,398 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 210 recorded.

Babies named Danial, 2025

1 in 368,000

Danial 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danial: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Daniyal

Hebrew

What Danial means

Danial is a alternate transcription of Daniyal.

Origin, language, and formation

Danial is used in Malay. Its origins include Hebrew.

Danial comes through Arabic دَانِيَال and Hebrew דניּאל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniyal.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Danial is pronounced /danial/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,394 boys were recorded with the name Danial between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 210 in 1957; its best national rank was #508 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,889 in 2020 to #8,398 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,804 in 2015 to #8,398 in 2025.

In the United States, 80 girls were recorded with the name Danial between 1974 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1983; its best national rank was #7,037 in 1974.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Danial?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,398
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danial 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danial. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danials were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danial was born before 1966 — so the typical Danial is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,766
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1950s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (1,828).

Is Danial 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
−2,431
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,509
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,594
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1957 (210)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#508
1954

Spellings of Danial

Danial is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 88.4% against Danial's 0.42%.

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.

Where Danial is used

Across 1910–2025, Danial was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 33,599 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 12,500
  2. 2Iowa1 in 14,286
  3. 3Oregon1 in 14,286
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 16,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 16,667
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  8. 8California1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Danial has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danial around the world

Where Danial 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2006
    #584
    in 2006
  • Ireland
    1983–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1994–2025
    #5,819
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Danial

People whose public names include Danial, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Danial by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,509
Best rank ever
#508
1954
Peak year
1957
210 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,394
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,037
1974
Peak year
1983
8 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
80
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danial

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

DannieDandreDaniloDangeloDannielDanteDanyelDanzelDanyalDaneDanishDannerDaniellDaniyalDanaDanthonyDaniilDaneilDanyMarcialNathanialDaniDannialDansby

Names with a curve like Danial

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Danial, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MichelCornellRandellCliffNickyGarthCareyDonnyKirbyKelleyReggieDirk

Sibling names for Danial

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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