Danil
Danil was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,455 among boys’ names; 278 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danil mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Danil is “a male given name”
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Данїилъ (Daniilŭ).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danil?
#12,455 among boys’ names, 2025
Danil fell from #7,165 in 2015 to #12,455 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
14 babies in 2018, the peak
Danil peaked in 2018, when 14 boys were given it, #6,104 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,455 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,178 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,098 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,451 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,198 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,718 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,573 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,104 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,765 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,284 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,165 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,274 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,640 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,032 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,311 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,048 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,294 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,839 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,196 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,543 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,457 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,208 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,030 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,929 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,928 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,562 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,002 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,360 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,743 | 2.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,242 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,607 | 3.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,102 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,262 | 3.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,539 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Danil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danil, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Danil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 934 people named Danil (24 women and girls, 910 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Danil rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,006,783 babies since 1880, Danil is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 8,149 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Danil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Danil and names like it
- Compare Danil and DanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDanil peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Danil.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Danil alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.