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Daniil

#7,785 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of Дании́л

Daniil has been given to 354 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #7,785 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Daniil, 2025

1 in 332,000

Daniil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daniil: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Дании́л

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daniil means

Daniil is a transliteration of Дании́л.

Origin, language, and formation

Daniil is used in English.

Daniil comes through Russian Дании́л.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Дании́л.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 354 boys were recorded with the name Daniil between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,541 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,450 in 2020 to #7,785 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,319 in 2015 to #7,785 in 2025.

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 Daniil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,785
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daniil 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daniil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daniils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daniil was born before 2016 — so the typical Daniil is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
354
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Choose a decade

2010s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Daniil 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
−3,054
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,335
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,466
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 2016 (31)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,541
2016

Spellings of Daniil

Daniil is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 97.6% against Daniil's 0.02%.

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 Daniil is used

Across 1910–2025, Daniil was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 541,373 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Daniil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daniil around the world

Where Daniil 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
    2003–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • France
    1998–2025
    #3,171
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2025–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Daniil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,785
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,335
Best rank ever
#3,541
2016
Peak year
2016
31 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
354
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Daniil

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

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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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