Danial
Last seen for girls in 1990 at #12,958 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1954 · 203 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,394since 1880
Danial over time
Rank among boys' names. Danial has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,904 | 15 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,343 | 24 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,855 | 19 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,104 | 14 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,596 | 30 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,090 | 36 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,661 | 28 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,510 | 30 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,005 | 39 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,643 | 46 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,542 | 47 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,906 | 61 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,974 | 56 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,306 | 43 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,875 | 56 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,932 | 50 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,791 | 56 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,292 | 85 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,448 | 68 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,312 | 79 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,266 | 80 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,210 | 86 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,196 | 86 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,102 | 94 |
| 1989 | — | #1,082 | 94 | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #938 | 105 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #896 | 109 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #840 | 116 |
| 1985 | — | #832 | 116 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #859 | 105 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #843 | 107 |
| 1982 | — | #732 | 141 | |
| 1981 | — | #800 | 120 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #867 | 105 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #812 | 115 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #737 | 131 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #755 | 128 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #719 | 136 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #703 | 139 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #730 | 124 |
| 1973 | — | #605 | 171 | |
| 1972 | — | #641 | 153 | |
| 1971 | — | #700 | 140 | |
| 1970 | — | #657 | 155 | |
| 1969 | — | #656 | 144 | |
| 1968 | — | #619 | 149 | |
| 1967 | — | #588 | 165 | |
| 1966 | — | #576 | 172 | |
| 1965 | — | #530 | 210 | |
| 1964 | — | #560 | 198 | |
| 1963 | — | #573 | 189 | |
| 1962 | — | #551 | 204 | |
| 1961 | — | #562 | 194 | |
| 1960 | — | #594 | 174 | |
| 1959 | — | #570 | 187 | |
| 1958 | — | #564 | 188 | |
| 1957 | — | #535 | 210 | |
| 1956 | — | #553 | 188 | |
| 1955 | — | #542 | 187 | |
| 1954 | — | #509 | 203 | |
| 1953 | — | #557 | 161 | |
| 1952 | — | #512 | 186 | |
| 1951 | — | #545 | 155 | |
| 1950 | — | #528 | 163 | |
| 1949 | — | #590 | 132 | |
| 1948 | — | #666 | 103 | |
| 1947 | — | #707 | 94 | |
| 1946 | — | #767 | 75 | |
| 1945 | — | #837 | 56 | |
| 1944 | — | #935 | 47 | |
| 1943 | — | #980 | 47 | |
| 1942 | — | #851 | 59 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,129 | 34 | |
| 1940 | — | #872 | 52 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,007 | 40 | |
| 1938 | — | #977 | 42 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,094 | 35 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,095 | 35 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,354 | 25 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,092 | 36 | |
| 1933 | — | #995 | 41 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,216 | 31 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,333 | 27 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,151 | 37 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,154 | 36 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,382 | 28 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,041 | 45 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,144 | 39 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,451 | 26 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,628 | 23 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,420 | 27 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,396 | 28 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,296 | 32 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,273 | 32 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,576 | 22 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,998 | 16 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,291 | 28 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,304 | 27 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,660 | 18 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,608 | 15 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,021 | 8 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | #1,058 | 5 | |
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #1,057 | 5 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | #872 | 7 | |
| 1894 | — | #857 | 7 | |
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | #861 | 7 | |
| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | — | #994 | 5 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #648 | 10 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | #845 | 6 | |
| 1885 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1884 | — | #764 | 7 | |
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | #563 | 10 | |
| 1880 | — | #682 | 8 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Danial was already there! It came in at #682, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1883, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Danial is popular in 1939
No state had 5 or more boys named Danial in 1939, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Danial
- 2,339 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #8,243)
- 3,388 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #8,243)
- 4,468 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #8,243)
- Biggest jump: 278 spots in 1942 (#1,129 → #851)
- Biggest drop: 257 spots in 1941 (#872 → #1,129)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1954 at #509 (203 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 35 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 62 yrs · run 1942–1988
- Highest: 1 in 8,858 boys born in 1965 were named Danial (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #509 in 1954, was only 1 in 10,043 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.5% of all boys named Danial (1,828) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 54 | #563 (1881) | #728 |
| 1890s | 41 | #857 (1894) | #948 |
| 1900s | 24 | #1,021 (1908) | #1,122 |
| 1910s | 145 | #1,291 (1917) | #1,724 |
| 1920s | 316 | #1,041 (1927) | #1,319 |
| 1930s | 349 | #977 (1938) | #1,131 |
| 1940s | 699 | #590 (1949) | #833 |
| 1950s | 1,828 | #509 (1954) | #542 |
| 1960s | 1,799 | #530 (1965) | #581 |
| 1970s | 1,392 | #605 (1973) | #706 |
| 1980s | 1,118 | #732 (1982) | #869 |
| 1990s | 747 | #1,102 (1990) | #1,415 |
| 2000s | 496 | #1,875 (2000) | #2,348 |
| 2010s | 282 | #3,090 (2014) | #3,842 |
| 2020s | 104 | #4,343 (2023) | #5,595 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Danial in 1939
Top boys' names in 1939
More about 1939
boys
1,106,852 boys got a published name in 1939; 1 in 27,671 of them was named Danial, which outranked 74.6% of the 3,968 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #992Rod41
- #992Romeo41
- #992Watson41
- #1,007Danial40
- #1,007Casper40
- #1,007Early40
- #1,007Evelyn40
- #1,015Curley39
- #1,015Dion39
- #1,015Erik39
Tied with 7 names at #1,007; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.