Meaning not yet researched.
Danial: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #509 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #509 in 1954; #8,402 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Danial in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,402 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #509.
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Danial: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #509 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 210 (1965).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Danial, making it the 8,402nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,430 places from #5,972 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 15 boys named Danial in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #509, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 210, in 1965. For comparison, it was #3,805 in 2015 and #528 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Danial in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 9,474 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,828 babies named Danial.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 206 US boys were named Danial; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Daniel (1,991,091 babies since 1880), Daniele (4,344 babies since 1880), Danyel (3,249 babies since 1880) and Daniell (2,883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Danyale, Danyaal and Daanyal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Danyale (977), Danyaal (17), Daanyal (16), Danyail (12), Danyall (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Danial in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,402 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #5,972 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,369 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,483 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,810 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,893 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,167 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,795 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,610 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,805 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,100 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,679 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,313 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,531 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,016 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,763 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,014 |
| 2007 | — | — | 46 | #2,655 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,548 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,246 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,251 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,910 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,979 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,315 |
| 2000 | — | — | 56 | #1,878 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,938 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,797 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,605 |
| 1996 | — | — | 85 | #1,293 |
| 1995 | — | — | 68 | #1,449 |
| 1994 | — | — | 79 | #1,312 |
| 1993 | — | — | 80 | #1,268 |
| 1992 | — | — | 86 | #1,212 |
| 1991 | — | — | 86 | #1,197 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,461 | 94 | #1,102 |
| 1989 | — | — | 94 | #1,083 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,573 | 105 | #938 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,129 | 109 | #898 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,338 | 116 | #840 |
| 1985 | — | — | 116 | #833 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,399 | 105 | #861 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,450 | 107 | #844 |
| 1982 | — | — | 141 | #734 |
| 1981 | — | — | 120 | #802 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,746 | 105 | #868 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,231 | 115 | #814 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,095 | 131 | #738 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,688 | 128 | #757 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,379 | 136 | #720 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,212 | 139 | #704 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,039 | 124 | #730 |
| 1973 | — | — | 171 | #606 |
| 1972 | — | — | 153 | #643 |
| 1971 | — | — | 140 | #700 |
| 1970 | — | — | 155 | #657 |
| 1969 | — | — | 144 | #657 |
| 1968 | — | — | 149 | #619 |
| 1967 | — | — | 165 | #589 |
| 1966 | — | — | 172 | #576 |
| 1965 | — | — | 210 | #531 |
| 1964 | — | — | 198 | #560 |
| 1963 | — | — | 189 | #573 |
| 1962 | — | — | 204 | #552 |
| 1961 | — | — | 194 | #564 |
| 1960 | — | — | 174 | #594 |
| 1959 | — | — | 187 | #570 |
| 1958 | — | — | 188 | #564 |
| 1957 | — | — | 210 | #535 |
| 1956 | — | — | 188 | #553 |
| 1955 | — | — | 187 | #542 |
| 1954 | — | — | 203 | #509 |
| 1953 | — | — | 161 | #559 |
| 1952 | — | — | 186 | #512 |
| 1951 | — | — | 155 | #545 |
| 1950 | — | — | 163 | #528 |
| 1949 | — | — | 132 | #591 |
| 1948 | — | — | 103 | #666 |
| 1947 | — | — | 94 | #708 |
| 1946 | — | — | 75 | #767 |
| 1945 | — | — | 56 | #839 |
| 1944 | — | — | 47 | #937 |
| 1943 | — | — | 47 | #980 |
| 1942 | — | — | 59 | #851 |
| 1941 | — | — | 34 | #1,132 |
| 1940 | — | — | 52 | #873 |
| 1939 | — | — | 40 | #1,008 |
| 1938 | — | — | 42 | #981 |
| 1937 | — | — | 35 | #1,098 |
| 1936 | — | — | 35 | #1,100 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,364 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,101 |
| 1933 | — | — | 41 | #999 |
| 1932 | — | — | 31 | #1,219 |
| 1931 | — | — | 27 | #1,338 |
| 1930 | — | — | 37 | #1,155 |
| 1929 | — | — | 36 | #1,155 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,392 |
| 1927 | — | — | 45 | #1,045 |
| 1926 | — | — | 39 | #1,147 |
| 1925 | — | — | 26 | #1,462 |
| 1924 | — | — | 23 | #1,637 |
| 1923 | — | — | 27 | #1,434 |
| 1922 | — | — | 28 | #1,406 |
| 1921 | — | — | 32 | #1,302 |
| 1920 | — | — | 32 | #1,278 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,585 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,018 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,300 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,311 |
| 1915 | — | — | 18 | #1,672 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,621 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,562 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,088 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,582 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,310 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,035 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,161 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,088 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,100 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #899 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #882 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,074 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #875 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,003 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,037 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #661 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #869 |
| 1885 | — | — | 8 | #718 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #790 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #929 |
| 1881 | — | — | 10 | #570 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #696 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).