Danijel

given name · Latin script

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

Danijel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 89th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 298(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 549
  • SISlovenia1 in 574

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

14,165 people, 2021

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Danijel 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 Danijel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#8914,1651 in 29814KDanijel121
RS Serbia#115≈13,000 est.≈1 in 549—Danijel66
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#97≈4,000 est.≈1 in 948—Danijel41
SI Slovenia#1113,6611 in 5743.7KDanijel57
AT Austria—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 4.6K211——

14,165 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Danijel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Danijél

  • Slovak given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Daňijel

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

31 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19601970198019902000Danijel Hočevar, b. 1965Danijel Hrman, b. 1975Danijel Šarić, b. 1977Danijel Ljuboja, b. 1978Danijel Pranjić, b. 1981Danijel Premuš, b. 1981Danijel Subašić, b. 1984Danijel Zagorac, b. 1987Danijel Subotić, b. 1989Danijel Aleksić, b. 1991

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 42 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Danijel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202114K#70
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202112K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20103.8K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20113.8K#70
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20083.8K#67
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20093.7K#68
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20123.7K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20133.7K#69
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20143.7K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20153.7K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20213.7K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20203.7K#76

Reference works 2

  • 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

In which country does Danijel have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Danijel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danijel.
Where is Danijel most common?
Danijel is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 298 people carrying it.
Is Danijel a male or female name?
Danijel 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 Danijel?
In the etymology graph, Daniel, Danny and Danilo are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Danijel?
In Croatia, the national register counted 14,165 people named Danijel in 2021, about 1 in 298 residents.
How common is Danijel compared with other names?
In Croatia, Danijel is the 89th most common given name of 14,066 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, “Danijel” — the 89th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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