Daniels
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Daniels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: son of Daniel.
- GYGuyana1 in 213(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #606 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- 1 in 213 (inferred from the name graph)
≈610,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Daniel
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daniels 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Daniels | 25 |
| US United States | #159 | 146,570 | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Daniels | 555 |
| ZA South Africa | #109 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Daniels | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | #212 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 3 | Daniels | 262 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Daniels | 87 |
| GY Guyana | #8 | 3,524 | 1 in 213 | 3.5K | Daniels | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | #173 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Daniels | 86 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Daniels 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 Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- William Danielsb. 1927USAmerican actor (born 1927)
- Charlie Danielsb. 1936USAmerican singer and musician (1936–2020)
- Anthony Danielsb. 1946GBEnglish actor and mime artist (born 1946)
- Jeff Danielsb. 1955USAmerican actor, musician and playwright
- Lee Danielsb. 1959USAmerican director, producer, and screenwriter
- Gary Danielsb. 1963GBBritish actor
- Ben Danielsb. 1964GBBritish actor
- Erin Danielsb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Stormy Danielsb. 1979USAmerican pornographic actress and director (born 1979)
- Spencer Danielsb. 1992USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147K | #187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141K | #194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139K | #180 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3.5K | #11 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Daniels mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Daniel Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Daniels?
- In the etymology graph, Danko, Deniel and Taneli are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Daniels have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 605 thousand people named Daniels in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daniels.
- Where is Daniels most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniels is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 213 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Daniels?
- In the United States, the national register counted 146,570 people named Daniels in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Daniels compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Daniels is the 8th most common surname of 15,834 surnames 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, “Daniels” — the 8th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.