Danilo

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Daniel in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 22 more, Даниил in RU Russia, Данило in UA Ukraine and Данил in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Danilo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name389K records spelled Danilo19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Daniló, Danilò, Danîlo, Danílo, Dànilo

• French given name13K records spelled Danilo8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dànilo, Danílo, Dânîlô, Danilö, Dänilo

• a separate given name12K records spelled Danilo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Daniló, Dânilo

• Hungarian given name7.6K records spelled Danilo5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Philippines, United States

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Daniló, Dänilo

• Thai given name3.4K records spelled Danilo12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Italy

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written ดานิโล, ดานิโล่, ดานีโล, Dänïlö, Danilô

53 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.

Other recorded senses●

Danilo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, forma serbocroata de Daniel

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In German, in Deutschland seit den i96oer-Jahren vorkommender männl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, bulgarische, makedonische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, dim of Daniil.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Czech, neuter singular past active participle of danit

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, a male given name, variant of Daniele

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 101 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Daniel of Galiciab. 1201UAnot in their usual namePrince of Galicia (1201-1264)
• Danilo Petrović-Njegošb. 1826MEPrince of Montenegro (1826–1860); ruled 1851–1860
• Danilo Donatib. 1926ITItalian costume designer (1926-2001)
• Danilo Kišb. 1935RSSerbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
• Danilo Bachb. 1944USFilm producer, screenwriter
• Giulio Tremontib. 1947ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician
• Danilo Medinab. 1951DOformer president of the Dominican Republic
• Danilo Türkb. 1952SIPresident of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012
• Danilo Luizb. 1991BRBrazilian association football player (born 1991)
• Danilo Pereirab. 1991PTPortuguese association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 925 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Danilo?

We estimate roughly 3.7 million people bear Danilo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Danilo have the most bearers?

Danilo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled daniel.

How common is Danilo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Danilo is the 6th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Danilo a male or female name?

Danilo 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 Danilo mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel