Daniš

surname · Latin script

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

Daniš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Danis, either a pet form of Daniel or a variant of Dennis .

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 13K
  • BEBelgium1 in 50K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,651 people, 2010

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Danis in US United States and Daniś in PL Poland.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Danis, either a pet form of Daniel or a variant of Dennis .

Sources 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daniš 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 Daniš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,6511 in 125K2.7KDanis9
SK Slovakia#5142,0621 in 2.6K2.1KDaniš40
CZ Czechia—8001 in 13K800Daniš29
PL Poland—2391 in 160K124Daniś27
BE Belgium—2331 in 50K233——

2,651 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Daniš is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Russia, India, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Danis, Данис, Danish, Daniş, Даниш

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Daniş, Danis, Dāniš, Dâniş

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Danis, Daniş, D'Anis, Dâñîś, Däñïs

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Danis, Daniş

  • Hindi given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Danis, Daniş

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, India, Nigeria, United States

    Also written Danis, Daniş

3 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)

1900192019401960Imrich Daniš, b. 1918Ján Daniš, b. 1919Ferdinand Daniš, b. 1929Ivan Daniš, b. 1943Ivan Daniš, b. 1951
  • Imrich Danišb. 1918SKCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician
  • Ján Danišb. 1919Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician
  • Ferdinand Danišb. 1929SKCzechoslovak gymnast
  • Ivan Danišb. 1943Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, local politician, regional politician and Slovak nation politician
  • Ivan Danišb. 1951CZCzech hurdler

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 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Daniš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)19952.1K—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—800#1,772
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—798#1,374
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—798#1,739
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#176,596

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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 Daniš mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Danis, either a pet form of Daniel or a variant of Dennis . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 1 other source.
In which country does Daniš have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Daniš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danis.
Where is Daniš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daniš is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Daniš?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,651 people named Daniš in 2010, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
How common is Daniš compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Daniš is the 514th most common surname of 69,668 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, “Daniš” — the 514th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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