Daniyal
#4,738 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daniyal has been given to 815 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,738 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Daniyal, 2025
1 in 158,000
Daniyal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Daniyal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,738
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daniyal sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daniyal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daniyals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daniyal was born before 2012 — so the typical Daniyal is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 815
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (359).
Is Daniyal 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
- −921
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −436
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,572
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.7%
- Peak was 2010 (47)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.2% average annual change
Spellings of Daniyal
Daniyal is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 99.2% against Daniyal's 0.04%.
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 Daniyal is used
Across 1910–2025, Daniyal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 238,995 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Daniyal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daniyal around the world
Where Daniyal 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 & Wales1996–2025#976in 2025
- Scotland2005–2024#727in 2024
- Ireland2008–2024#655in 2024
- France2011–2025#3,731in 2025
- Canada2002–2024#1,698in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Daniyal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Daniyal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daniyal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.