Danniel
Danniel was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,399 among boys’ names; 2,604 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Danniel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 25 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danniel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danniel?
#8,399 among boys’ names, 2025
Danniel fell from #5,101 in 2015 to #8,399 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 5.3 per million.
51 babies in 1959, the peak
Danniel peaked in 1959, when 51 boys were given it, #1,083 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,399 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,233 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,396 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,171 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,090 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,761 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,859 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,825 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,767 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,985 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,101 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,916 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,083 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,461 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,380 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,735 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,283 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,171 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,934 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,614 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,097 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,030 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,206 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,276 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,428 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,794 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,878 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,729 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,625 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,148 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,210 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,512 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,585 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,677 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,235 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,630 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,830 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,379 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,123 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,109 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,127 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,804 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,692 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,143 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,000 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,865 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,323 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,838 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,232 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,941 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,560 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,668 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,055 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,289 | 25.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,640 | 16.4 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,900 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,816 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,435 | 17.3 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,256 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,543 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 31 | #1,388 | 16.7 |
| 1964 | 31 | #1,410 | 15.6 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,309 | 17.7 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,297 | 17.4 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,197 | 20.7 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,242 | 18.8 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,083 | 23.9 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,223 | 18.8 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,133 | 21.3 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,173 | 19.9 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,275 | 17.0 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,139 | 21.1 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,246 | 18.3 |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,067 | 23.7 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,071 | 23.9 |
| 1950 | 50 | #979 | 27.9 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,186 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,617 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,256 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,564 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,546 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,101 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,649 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,969 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,518 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,204 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,595 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,634 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,525 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,934 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,776 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,362 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,456 | 5.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,299 | 6.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,217 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,802 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,347 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,489 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,222 | 7.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Danniel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,604 Americans recorded as Danniel, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Danniel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danniel, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,604 Americans ever recorded as Danniel. The median Danniel alive today is 42 years old; half are between 25 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,482 people named Danniel (229 women and girls, 1,253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 489 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 453 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 523 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 467 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 177 |
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 Danniel born?
The states with the most babies named Danniel are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 418 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Danniel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Danniel is most over-represented in California: since 1923 it was given 1.5 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 Danniel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Danniel?
Danniel is a less common spelling of Daniel: SSA has recorded 2,604 Danniel and 1,991,091 Daniel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,005,828 babies since 1880, Danniel is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 8,126 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Danniel
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 Danniel and names like it
- Compare Danniel and DanielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDanniel peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danniel since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Danniel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danniel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.