Daniël

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Daniel (biblical prophet)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/daːnijɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daniël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 88(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 110
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 148

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,607,193 people, 2020

#22 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
697 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 88 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DaniëlLatin(measured from records)
ДаниилCyrillic(measured from records)
ทัศนัยThai(measured from records)
ԴանիելArmenian(measured from records)
다니엘Hangul(measured from records)
დანიGeorgian(measured from records)
דנילוHebrew(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Daniel in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Daniel (biblical prophet)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daniël counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Daniël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#151,607,1931 in 2071.6MDaniel697
BR Brazil#20770,7431 in 275771KDaniel304
NG Nigeria#25≈750,000 est.≈1 in 286—Daniel183
DE Germany#20≈400,000 est.≈1 in 203—Daniel366
GB United Kingdom#19≈380,000 est.≈1 in 1743Daniel451
CO Colombia#12≈330,000 est.≈1 in 15010Daniel255
AR Argentina#7≈310,000 est.≈1 in 1483.2KDaniel227
CZ Czechia#20121,8701 in 88122KDaniel189
SE Sweden#2092,4341 in 11092KDaniel209
HU Hungary#1864,0201 in 15364KDaniel197

1,607,193 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register; MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Daniël is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Nigeria, Tanzania

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Daniel, Daniel', Dániel

  • a separate name13 spellings in the group

    Also written Daniél, Daníel, Dàniel, Dani'El, Danie͏̈l

  • English (South Africa) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia

    Also written Daniel, Daniél

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Daniel, 'Daniel, Daniel', Dániel

  • Romanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Daniel, Dániel

  • Hebrew given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Argentina, Morocco

    Also written דניאל, Daniyel, דני, Daniel, דאניאל

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Daniël is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Afrikaans, Daniel (biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Eduard Daniël van Oort, b. 1876Adriaan Daniel Fokker, b. 1887Daniël Noteboom, b. 1910Daniël Termont, b. 1953Daniel Lambo, b. 1968Daniël Leeflang, b. 1970Armin van Buuren, b. 1976Daniël Mensch, b. 1978Daniël de Ridder, b. 1984Daniël Stellwagen, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHallo Daniël,Hi Daniël, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Daniël
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—75#10,353
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202021—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201917—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201713—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201812—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201611—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201510—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#9,725
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2011——

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Daniël mean, and where does it come from?
Daniel (biblical prophet) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Daniël?
A machine transcription gives /daːnijɛl/ (IPA) for Dutch.
Is Daniël a male or female name?
Daniël is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Daniël?
In the etymology graph, Danny, Danilo and Daniele are forms of the same name in other languages; Daan is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Daniël have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 million people named Daniël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daniel.
Where is Daniël most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniël is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 88 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Daniël?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,607,193 people named Daniël in 2020, about 1 in 207 residents.
How common is Daniël compared with other names?
In the United States, Daniël is the 15th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daniël” — the 15th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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