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Danijel

Boys' name

One who judges [of] + me, through Δᾱνῑήλ

Danijel has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2011, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Danijel, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danijel: meaning, origin, and history

One who judges [of] + me, through Δᾱνῑήλ

Hebrew

What Danijel means

Danijel belongs to the name family reached through Danijel → Δᾱνῑήλ → דָּנִיֵּאל. Its meaning is “one who judges [of] + me”.

Origin, language, and formation

Danijel is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Danijel comes through Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ and Biblical Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniel, Δᾱνῑήλ and דָּנִיֵּאל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Danijel is pronounced /dǎnijel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Danijel between 2011 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2011; its best national rank was #11,132 in 2011.

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 Danijel?

Danijel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danijel 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danijel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danijels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danijel was born before 2011 — so the typical Danijel is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Danijel 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (6)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,132
2011

Spellings of Danijel

Danijel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 98.6% against Danijel'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.

Danijel around the world

Where Danijel 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.

  • France
    1973–1986
    #2,889
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1985–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Danijel 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
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Best rank ever
#11,132
2011
Peak year
2011
6 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danijel

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

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Sibling names for Danijel

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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