Danyl
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Danyl has been given to 140 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1998, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.
Babies named Danyl, 2014
1 in 741,000
Danyl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Danyl over time
In 2014, Danyl went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Danyl?
Danyl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Danyl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Danyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Danyls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Danyl was born before 2008 — so the typical Danyl is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 81
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Danyl 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (10)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.3% average annual change
Spellings of Danyl
Danyl is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 72.9% against Danyl'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.
Danyl around the world
Where Danyl 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 & Wales2003–2017#4,812in 2017
- Scotland2009–2010#383in 2010
- Northern Ireland2009–2009#329in 2009
- Ireland2010–2010#542in 2010
- France1979–2025#2,718in 2025
- Canada2009–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1985–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Danyl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Danyl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Danyl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.