Daniyal

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Daniyal is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script.

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 · English52K records
ДаниялCyrillic · Kazakh31K records
দানিয়েলBengali · Bangla71 records
ᲓანიალGeorgian · Georgian25 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Danial in US United States, BR Brazil, PL Poland and 11 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Daniyal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,601,62545K rec.1 in 2081.6MDanial268
BR Brazil770,743117 rec.1 in 275771KDanial20
FR France437,465112 rec.1 in 155437KDaniyal29
ES Spain310,188501 rec.1 in 161310KDaniel30
PL Poland171,87510 rec.1 in 223172KDanial1
CZ Czechia121,8701 in 88122K
SE Sweden92,434261 rec.1 in 11092KDanial24
EC Ecuador71,3928 rec.1 in 23771K10
HU Hungary64,0201 in 15364K
NL Netherlands45,986277 rec.1 in 37646KDanial38
RU Russia#92121,04612K rec.#369Даниял111
NO Norway19,867110 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

  • Hindi10K29%
  • Urdu7.3K20%
  • English4.1K11%
  • 3.3K9%
  • Indonesian1.7K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi10,49429%
Urdu7,29920%
English4,08311%
3,3219%
Indonesian1,6885%

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

Daniyal is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name3.5K records spelled Daniyal4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Russia, United States

    Also written Dăniyal, Daniyāl, Dāniyāl

  • Persian given name256 records spelled Daniyal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye, India

    Also written Dāniyāl

35 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

010203040194019601980200035 · 1986

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Daniyal in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1922–2013
Yearrecords
19221
19232
19261
19315
19332
19345
19356
19363
19373
19382
19394
19402
19413
19423
19435
19444
19455
19466
194710
19485
19499
19504
195114
19527
19539
195418
195511
195615
195713
195814
195914
196014
196111
196217
196313
196414
19656
196627
196719
196817
196916
197017
197117
197225
197323
197424
197524
197622
197716
197822
197919
198024
198123
198232
198324
198420
198531
198635
198726
198823
198915
199026
199118
199227
199322
199429
199527
19965
199722
19983
19992
20081
20122
20133

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)74 years between 1922–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

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 44 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Daniyal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020845#13,943
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)176#5,266
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls149#21,750
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls126#2,478
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)110#8,018
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)100#4,406
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)80#1,680
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)80#18,842
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202068
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)67#10,049
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)54#12,000
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202650#3,315

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 248 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daniyal?
We estimate roughly 3.7 million people bear Daniyal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Daniyal have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.6 million people bear Daniyal in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled danial.
Where is Daniyal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniyal is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 88 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Daniyal compared with other names?
In Kazakhstan, Daniyal is the 276th most common given name of 322,768 given names recorded there.
Is Daniyal a male or female name?
Daniyal 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.
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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, “Daniyal” — the 276th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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