Danilo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɐnilu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Danilo 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.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 382(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 88as Daniel
- SESweden1 in 110as Daniel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Danilo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #22 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 697 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 382 (inferred from the name graph)
1,607,193 named Daniel, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Daniel in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 8 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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Danilo 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 | #15 | 1,607,193as Daniel | 1 in 207 | 1.6M | Daniel | 697 |
| BR Brazil | #20 | 770,743as Daniel | 1 in 275 | 771K | Daniel | 304 |
| NG Nigeria | #25 | ≈750,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | — | Daniel | 183 |
| DE Germany | #20 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 203 | — | Daniel | 366 |
| GB United Kingdom | #19 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | 3 | Daniel | 451 |
| CO Colombia | #12 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | 10 | Daniel | 255 |
| AR Argentina | #7 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | 3.2K | Daniel | 227 |
| PH Philippines | #32 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | — | Daniel | 191 |
| CZ Czechia | #20 | 121,870as Daniel | 1 in 88 | 122K | Daniel | 189 |
| SE Sweden | #20 | 92,434as Daniel | 1 in 110 | 92K | Daniel | 209 |
| HU Hungary | #18 | 64,020as Dániel | 1 in 153 | 64K | Daniel | 197 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Danilo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, forma serbocroata de Daniel
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In German, in Deutschland seit den i96oer-Jahren vorkommender männl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, bulgarische, makedonische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, dim of Daniil.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Czech, neuter singular past active participle of danit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, a male given name, variant of Daniele
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)
- Daniel of Galiciab. 1201UAPrince of Galicia (1201-1264)
- Danilo Petrović-Njegošb. 1826MEPrince of Montenegro (1826–1860); ruled 1851–1860
- Danilo Donatib. 1926ITItalian costume designer (1926-2001)
- Danilo Kišb. 1935RSSerbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
- Danilo Bachb. 1944USFilm producer, screenwriter
- Giulio Tremontib. 1947ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician
- Danilo Medinab. 1951DOformer president of the Dominican Republic
- Danilo Türkb. 1952SIPresident of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012
- Danilo Luizb. 1991BRBrazilian association football player (born 1991)
- Danilo Pereirab. 1991PTPortuguese association football player
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)
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 89 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 233K | #225 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 230K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 229K | #137 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,208 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #137 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 759 | #2,059 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 448 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 376 | #338 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 147 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 74 | #1,582 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 48 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Danilo mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Danilo?
- In the etymology graph, Daniel, Danny and Daniele are forms of the same name in other languages; Dani is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Danilo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 million people named Daniel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Danilo?
- A machine transcription gives /dɐnilu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Danilo a male or female name?
- Danilo 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.
- How common is the name Danilo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,607,193 people named Daniel in 2020, about 1 in 207 residents.
- How common is Danilo compared with other names?
- In the United States, Danilo is the 15th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Danilo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daniloThe 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, “Danilo” — the 15th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.