Daniëls
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/daːnijɛls/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Daniëls is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1316. Ultimately from Hebrew דניּאל (daniyél). Cognate to English Daniel.
- GYGuyana1 in 213(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.3K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #606 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- 1 in 213 (inferred from the name graph)
146,570 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Daniels in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 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)First recorded in 1316. Ultimately from Hebrew דניּאל (daniyél). Cognate to English Daniel.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Daniëls 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #159 | 146,570 | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Daniels | 555 |
| ZA South Africa | #109 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Daniels | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | #212 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 3 | Daniels | 262 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Daniels | 87 |
| CA Canada | #241 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Daniels | 235 |
| GY Guyana | #8 | 3,524 | 1 in 213 | 3.5K | Daniels | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | #173 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Daniels | 86 |
146,570 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Polydoor Dionysius Daniëlsb. 1845BEpriest, teacher, house chaplain, administrator and curator (1845-1944)
- Franz Daniëlsb. 1860NLmathematician, professor at University of Fribourg (1860-1918)
- Charles Daniëlsb. 1879NLDutch professional photographer (1879–1952)
- Joop Daniëlsb. 1931NLDutch association football player (1931-2001)
- René Daniëlsb. 1950NLDutch painter (born 1950)
- Wim Daniëlsb. 1954NLDutch writer
- Marc Daniëlsb. 1959BEAmerican comic artist (1959–2021)
- Koen Daniëlsb. 1978BEFlemish politician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Daniëls mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded in 1316. Ultimately from Hebrew דניּאל (daniyél). Cognate to English Daniel. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Daniëls?
- In Dutch /daːnijɛls/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Daniëls have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 147 thousand people named Daniëls, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daniels.
- Where is Daniëls most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniëls is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 213 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Daniëls?
- In the United States, the national register counted 146,570 people named Daniëls in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Daniëls compared with other names?
- In the United States, Daniëls is the 159th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Daniëls?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dani%C3%ABlsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Daniëls” — the 159th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.