girls:
80 births since 1974
#5636 (1st percentile)
boys:
9.4k births since 1880
#1217 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1880
#2770 (64th percentile)
The name Danial is the #2,770 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,451 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 64.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,217 (73.5% percentile) for all time with 9,371 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1974.
Danial has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1974 for girls). Birth data for Danial is available in 131 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 13 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 Danial has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Danial reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 29.7% percentile (ranked #463) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 111 births per million (ranked 29.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Danial ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 11.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Danial reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #772) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danial".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Danial", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 33 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Daniel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Daniel..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Danial. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Danial is pronounced as DA-nee-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-nyuhl, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AE1 N IY0 AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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