Danial
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in England and Wales.
Danial by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Danial. In the US, 28 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 210 babies in 1965, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Danial
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Danial. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- DanielGod is my judge11,654 in the US (2017)
- DaniyalGod is my judge; form of Daniel31 in England and Wales (2025)
- DaniilGod is my judge; a form of Daniel10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Danila form of Daniel, God is my judge12 in the US (2017)
- Danyal28 in England and Wales (2025)
- Damiantamer, subduer3,322 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Danial
Names that are said the same way as Danial, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Danial
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