Doniel
#12,525 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Doniel has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #12,525 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Doniel, 2025
1 in 663,000
Doniel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Doniel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,525
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Doniel 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Doniels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Doniel was born before 1989 — so the typical Doniel is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 23.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 409
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Doniel 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
- +276
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +15
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +32
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 1979 (13)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Doniel
Doniel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 92.7% against Doniel's 0.02%.
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.
Doniel around the world
Where Doniel 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 & Wales2012–2012#3,416in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Doniel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Doniel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Doniel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.