Danial

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Danial is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Daniel (biblical person).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 208◐
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 1.7K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 7.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.7M ●

across 15 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
268 ●

122K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 88 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

DanialLatin · English●52K records
ДаниялCyrillic · Kazakh●31K records
দানিয়েলBengali · Bangla●71 records
ᲓანიალGeorgian · Georgian●25 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Daniyal in FR France, NO Norway, IN India and 1 more, Daniel in ES Spain, PE Peru, Даниял in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia and Daniele in IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Daniel (biblical person)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Danial is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,601,625△45K rec.1 in 2081.6MDanial268
BR Brazil—770,743△117 rec.1 in 275771KDanial20
FR France—437,465△112 rec.1 in 155437KDaniyal29
ES Spain—310,188△501 rec.1 in 161310KDaniel30
PL Poland—171,875△10 rec.1 in 223172KDanial1
CZ Czechia—121,870—1 in 88122K——
SE Sweden—92,434△261 rec.1 in 11092KDanial24
EC Ecuador—71,392△8 rec.1 in 23771K—10
HU Hungary—64,020—1 in 15364K——
NL Netherlands—45,986△277 rec.1 in 37646KDanial38
RU Russia#92121,04612K rec.—#369Даниял111
NO Norway—19,867△110 rec.1 in 27570KDaniyal17

Roughly 1.6M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 208). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English52K45%
  • Malay12K11%
  • Indonesian11K10%
  • 7.1K6%
  • Arabic4.3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English52,36745%
Malay12,40811%
Indonesian11,40110%
7,1086%
Arabic4,3204%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Danial is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name37K records spelled Danial3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, India

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Daniál

  • Hindi given name7.2K records spelled Danial6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written দানিয়াল

  • French given name2.6K records spelled Danial6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Malaysia

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dánial, Danîal, Dãnial, Dànîàl

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name1.8K records spelled Danial6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Faroe Islands

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Dánial

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0100200300190019502000210 · 1957

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Danial in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18808
188110
18835
18847
18858
18866
188810
18905
18915
18927
18935
18947
18957
18975
19015
19035
19088
19096
19116
19127
19136
191415
191518
191627
191728
191816
191922
192032
192132
192228
192327
192423
192526
192639
192745
192828
192936
193037
193127
193231
193341
193436
193525
193635
193735
193842
193940
194052
194134
194259
194347
194447
194556
194675
194794
1948103
1949132
1950163
1951155
1952186
1953161
1954203
1955187
1956188
1957210
1958188
1959187
1960174
1961194
1962204
1963189
1964198
1965210
1966172
1967165
1968149
1969144
1970155
1971140
1972153
1973171
1974124
1975139
1976136
1977128
1978131
1979115
1980105
1981120
1982141
1983107
1984105
1985116
1986116
1987109
1988105
198994
199094
199186
199286
199380
199479
199568
199685
199763
199856
199950
200056
200143
200256
200361
200451
200553
200647
200746
200839
200944
201025
201130
201233
201328
201436
201528
201630
201728
201830
201914
202019
202120
202217
202324
202415
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 133 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Daniel Bernoulli, b. 1700Louis Armstrong, b. 1901Daniel arap Moi, b. 1924Danny Elfman, b. 1953Danny Boyle, b. 1956Daniel Day-Lewis, b. 1957Éric Cantona, b. 1966Nicușor Dan, b. 1969Daniel Alves, b. 1983Daniel Noboa, b. 1987
  • Daniel Bernoullib. 1700CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
  • Louis Armstrongb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
  • Daniel arap Moib. 1924KEnot in their usual nameKenyan President (2nd) (1924-2020)
  • Danny Elfmanb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican film composer (born 1953)
  • Danny Boyleb. 1956GBnot in their usual nameEnglish filmmaker
  • Daniel Day-Lewisb. 1957GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
  • Éric Cantonab. 1966FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer and actor (born 1966)
  • Nicușor Danb. 1969ROnot in their usual namePresident of Romania since 2025
  • Daniel Alvesb. 1983BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
  • Daniel Noboab. 1987ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador since 2023

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Danial
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.4K#2,984
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—842#1,824
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020815#30,637
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—655#2,279
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010520#41,799
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020473—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000349#55,124
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025227—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—161#1,041
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—150#4,076
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020140#2,984
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—112#14,461

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 441 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Danial?
We estimate roughly 3.7 million people bear Danial (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Danial have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.6 million people bear Danial in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled danial.
Where is Danial most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Danial is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 88 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Danial compared with other names?
In Kazakhstan, Danial is the 276th most common given name of 322,768 given names recorded there.
Is Danial a male or female name?
Danial is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Danial mean?
Recorded meaning: Daniel (biblical person)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Danial” — the 276th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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