Danial
Danial is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 509th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1957210 births
- Best rank
- #509in 1954
- Since 1880
- 9,386people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,386 boys have been named Danial in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 210 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Danial | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 54 | |
| 1890s | 41 | |
| 1900s | 24 | |
| 1910s | 145 | |
| 1920s | 316 | |
| 1930s | 349 | |
| 1940s | 699 | |
| 1950s | 1,828 | |
| 1960s | 1,800 | |
| 1970s | 1,392 | |
| 1980s | 1,118 | |
| 1990s | 747 | |
| 2000s | 496 | |
| 2010s | 282 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Danial was the 535th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Danial
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaypeak 1960
- Michelpeak 1957
- Davidpeak 1955
- Reginaldpeak 1962
- Phillippeak 1960
- Patrickpeak 1964
- Bradfordpeak 1953
- Kirbypeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.