Danijel
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/dǎnijel/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Danijel is a male 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.
- HRCroatia1 in 298(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 574
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 590few records
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)
14,165 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #89 | 14,165 | 1 in 298 | 14K | Danijel | 121 |
| RS Serbia | #115 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 626 | — | Danijel | 66 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #97 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Danijel | 41 |
| SI Slovenia | #111 | 3,661 | 1 in 574 | 3.7K | Danijel | 57 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 211 | — | — |
| ME Montenegro | #157 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Danijel | 15 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Danijel Hočevarb. 1965SISlovene film producer
- Danijel Hrmanb. 1975HRCroatian footballer
- Danijel Šarićb. 1977BABosnian handball player
- Danijel Ljubojab. 1978FRSerbian and French footballer
- Danijel Pranjićb. 1981HRCroatian association football manager and former player
- Danijel Premušb. 1981HRItalian water polo player
- Danijel Subašićb. 1984HRCroatian association football player
- Danijel Zagoracb. 1987HRCroatian footballer
- Danijel Subotićb. 1989BAfootballer
- Danijel Aleksićb. 1991RSSerbian footballer
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 14K | #70 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 3.8K | #69 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 3.8K | #67 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 3.7K | #68 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 3.7K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 3.7K | #69 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 3.7K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 3.7K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 3.7K | #77 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 3.7K | #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
- 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 do you pronounce Danijel?
- In Croatian /dǎnijel/ (Wiktionary).
- 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. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo), among others.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Danijel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/danijelThe 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, “Danijel” — the 89th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.