Danilo
Danilo was given to 147 boys in 2025, #1,316 among boys’ names; 4,674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,510 Americans named Danilo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danilo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Danilo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Danilo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel”
Borrowed from Italian Danilo. Doublet of Daniel.
/daˈnilo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Danilo?
#1,316 among boys’ names, 2025
Danilo fell from #1,030 in 2015 to #1,316 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.09 per 1,000.
209 babies in 2022, the peak
Danilo peaked in 2022, when 209 boys were given it, #1,053 among boys’ names. The 147 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,316 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,097 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,052 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 209 | #1,053 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 204 | #1,051 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 163 | #1,181 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,226 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 197 | #1,034 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 200 | #1,010 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 197 | #1,030 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 114 | #1,442 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 91 | #1,677 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 91 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,124 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 88 | #1,724 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 87 | #1,722 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,042 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,635 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,937 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,947 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,181 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,850 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,880 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,282 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,266 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,708 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 60 | #1,543 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,492 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 45 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,485 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,424 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,012 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,788 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,751 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,663 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,996 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,700 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,690 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,818 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,927 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,632 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Danilo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Danilo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Danilo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danilo, and how old are they?
4,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,674 Americans ever recorded as Danilo. The median Danilo alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 11,920 people named Danilo (30 women and girls, 11,890 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 106 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 357 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 725 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,260 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Danilo born?
The states with the most babies named Danilo are California, Texas and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #757 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,043 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,139 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #878 | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,612 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #784 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 6 | #922 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #947 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,395 | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 5 | #633 | 0.1× |
Where Danilo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danilo is most over-represented in California: since 1946 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Danilo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,013 babies since 1880, Danilo is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 170 babies (86%), again the most given.
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 Danilo
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 Danilo and names like it
- Compare Danilo and DanileBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDanilo peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danilo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Danilo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Danilo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Danilo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.