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Danilo

#1,316 in 2025Boys' name

God is my judge, through Daniele

Danilo has been given to 4,674 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #1,316 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 209 recorded.

Babies named Danilo, 2025

1 in 22,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Danilo: meaning, origin, and history

God is my judge, through Daniele

Spanish

What Danilo means

Danilo belongs to the name family reached through Danilo → Danilo → Danilo → Daniele. Its meaning is “God is my judge”.

Origin, language, and formation

Danilo is used in Cebuano, Italian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Danilo comes through Spanish Danilo and Italian Danilo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniele, Daniel and Danilo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Danilo is pronounced /daˈnilo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,674 boys were recorded with the name Danilo between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 209 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,010 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,181 in 2020 to #1,316 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,030 in 2015 to #1,316 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 Danilo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,316
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danilo 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danilo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danilos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danilo was born before 2012 — so the typical Danilo is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (1,390).

Is Danilo 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
−219
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−135
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−286
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.3%
Peak was 2022 (209)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,010
2017

Spellings of Danilo

Danilo is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 97.4% against Danilo's 0.23%.

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 Danilo is used

Across 2016–2025, Danilo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 8,342 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,545
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,263
  3. 3Arizona1 in 5,556
  4. 4Illinois1 in 5,556
  5. 5Florida1 in 7,692
  6. 6Colorado1 in 8,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 10,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 11,111

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.

Danilo around the world

Where Danilo 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–1979
    #296
    in 1979
  • France
    1924–2025
    #2,050
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Danilo

People whose public names include Danilo, 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.

Danilo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Danilo. Linked forms have their own page here.

DanilDanielDaniilDanyloDánielDanilhoDanillo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Danilo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,316
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 135
Best rank ever
#1,010
2017
Peak year
2022
209 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,674
Count in 2025
147

Names similar to Danilo

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

DandreDannieDanialDannielDangeloDanyelCamiloDanzelDanyalDanishDannerDaniellDaniyalDanthonyDaniilDaneilCiriloDanyDaniDansbyDanteShiloDantonDantae

Names with a curve like Danilo

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

DovImranMeirLazarusYitzchokShmuelAryehAvrahamTzviZevMikaelJeremias

Sibling names for Danilo

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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