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Danyal

#6,890 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Daniel

Danyal has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,890 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.

Babies named Danyal, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Danyal over time

In 2025, Danyal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19722025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Danyal: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Daniel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Danyal means

Danyal is a form of Daniel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Danyal is a form of Daniel. Daniel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Daniel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 609 boys were recorded with the name Danyal between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,032 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,503 in 2020 to #6,890 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,408 in 2015 to #6,890 in 2025.

In the United States, 176 girls were recorded with the name Danyal between 1972 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1975; its best national rank was #3,182 in 1975.

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.

How common is Danyal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,890
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Danyal 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danyal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Danyals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Danyal was born before 2007 — so the typical Danyal is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
609
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Danyal 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
−2,668
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,387
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−482
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2002 (28)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,032
1998

Spellings of Danyal

Danyal is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 92.1% against Danyal's 0.03%.

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 Danyal is used

Across 1910–2025, Danyal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 449,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Danyal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Danyal around the world

Where Danyal 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
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2019
    #609
    in 2019
  • France
    1988–2025
    #5,902
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #1,727
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #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.

Danyal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,890
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,387
Best rank ever
#3,032
1998
Peak year
2002
28 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
609
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,182
1975
Peak year
1975
22 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
176
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Danyal

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

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Sibling names for Danyal

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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