Danyel
Danyel was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 3,249 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Danyel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Danyel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Danyel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,219, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
155 babies in 1976, the peak
Danyel peaked in 1976, when 155 babies were given it (126 girls, #1,000 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #10,950 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,467 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #9,963 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,035 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,078 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,214 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,272 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,219 | 17 | #5,362 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 11 | #7,199 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,714 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,115 | 20 | #4,748 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,194 | 17 | #5,295 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,269 | 15 | #5,721 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,616 | 21 | #4,570 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,696 | 18 | #5,023 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,982 | 10 | #7,704 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,771 | 13 | #6,506 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,606 | 23 | #4,290 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,153 | 30 | #3,523 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,589 | 24 | #4,021 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,332 | 15 | #5,341 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,734 | 17 | #4,831 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,605 | 16 | #4,857 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,747 | 12 | #5,797 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,433 | 15 | #4,931 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,079 | 26 | #3,225 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,257 | 12 | #5,371 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,802 | 9 | #6,420 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,565 | 12 | #5,012 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,158 | 5 | #9,304 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,590 | 11 | #5,197 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,000 | 11 | #5,164 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,352 | 14 | #4,268 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,220 | 8 | #6,236 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,387 | 5 | #8,451 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,203 | 14 | #4,015 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,895 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 87 | #1,533 | 12 | #3,955 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,411 | 8 | #5,057 |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,353 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 82 | #1,494 | 12 | #3,637 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,417 | 11 | #3,752 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,753 | 12 | #3,451 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,740 | 13 | #3,328 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,740 | 13 | #3,255 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,678 | 12 | #3,457 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,505 | 16 | #2,800 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,585 | 9 | #3,921 |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,442 | 12 | #3,234 |
| 1976 | 126 | #1,000 | 29 | #1,753 |
| 1975 | 116 | #1,035 | 19 | #2,299 |
| 1974 | 121 | #1,000 | 11 | #3,173 |
| 1973 | 112 | #1,040 | 19 | #2,143 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,995 | 15 | #2,451 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,039 | 7 | #4,057 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,655 | 9 | #3,334 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,717 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,556 | 8 | #3,164 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,583 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,064 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,566 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,955 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Danyel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,249 Americans recorded as Danyel, 77% are girls and 23% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Danyel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Danyel, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,249 Americans ever recorded as Danyel. The median Danyel alive today is 39 years old; half are between 28 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,671 people named Danyel (2,120 women and girls, 551 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,040 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 723 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 172 |
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 Danyel born?
The states with the most babies named Danyel are California, Texas and Ohio, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 196 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 88 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 84 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Danyel 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,200 babies since 1880, Danyel is the most given (29% of them).
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 Danyel
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 Danyel and names like it
- Compare Danyel and DaniellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDanyel peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Danyel since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Danyel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Danyel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.