girls:
6 births since 1984
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1994
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
32 births since 1984
#7707 (0th percentile)
The name Daneal is the #7,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1984.
Daneal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for girls and 1994 for boys). Birth data for Daneal is available in 6 out of the 37 years between 1984 and 2020 (5 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Daneal has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Daneal were boys. Interestingly, until around 1994, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1984 to 1993), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1994 to 2020).
For boys, Daneal reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #804) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Daneal reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #787) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daneal".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Daneal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Daneal is pronounced as duh-NEE-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-nee-uhl, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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