Daniels
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Daniels is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: son of Daniel.
- GYGuyana1 in 213◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.9K
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈156K ●
- #766 ●
- Sources
- 498 ●
- 1 in 213 ◐
across 11 countries
of 21M surnames
1.5M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
son of Daniel
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #156 | 146,570 | 1.2M rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Daniels | 498 |
| GB United Kingdom | #239 | 76,577 | 66K rec. | — | 3 | Daniels | 204 |
| AU Australia | #263 | 27,651 | 26K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 169 |
| CA Canada | #225 | 22,734 | 22K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 171 |
| ZA South Africa | #120 | 15,999 | 15K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 115 |
| DE Germany | — | 8,534 | 8.2K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 129 |
| IT Italy | #316 | 6,149 | 6.3K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 32 |
| RU Russia | — | 4,379 | 4.5K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 40 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 3,928 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 83 |
| GY Guyana | #6 | 3,524 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 213 | 3.5K | Daniels | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | #156 | 3,196 | 3K rec. | — | — | Daniels | 75 |
| BE Belgium | #236 | 2,687 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 4.4K | 2.7K | Daniels | 99 |
Roughly 147K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.3K). 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●
- English1.5M83%
- 66K4%
- Spanish57K3%
- German20K1%
- Welsh17K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,491,704 | 83% |
| 65,749 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 56,934 | 3% |
| German | 20,220 | 1% |
| Welsh | 17,223 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Daniels is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2015 | 29 |
| 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 31 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 34 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- William Danielsb. 1927USAmerican actor (born 1927)
- Charlie Danielsb. 1936USAmerican singer and musician (1936–2020)
- Anthony Danielsb. 1946GBEnglish actor and mime artist (born 1946)
- Jeff Danielsb. 1955USAmerican actor, musician and playwright
- Lee Danielsb. 1959USAmerican director, producer, and screenwriter
- Gary Danielsb. 1963GBBritish actor
- Ben Danielsb. 1964GBBritish actor
- Erin Danielsb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Stormy Danielsb. 1979USAmerican pornographic actress and director (born 1979)
- Spencer Danielsb. 1992USAmerican actor
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 65 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147K | #187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141K | #194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139K | #180 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.1K | #73 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.1K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3.5K | #11 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.7K | #332 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.6K | #340 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.3K | #1,174 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 494 | #1,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 260 | #28,083 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 248 | #4,077 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Daniels?
- We estimate roughly 156 thousand people bear Daniels (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Daniels have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 147 thousand people bear Daniels in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled daniels.
- Where is Daniels most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniels is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 213 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Daniels compared with other names?
- In the United States, Daniels is the 156th most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Daniels mean?
- Recorded meaning: son of Daniel
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daniels” — the 156th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.