Daniel

girls:

8.3k births since 1900

#1789 (69th percentile)

boys:

2M births since 1880

#12 (100th percentile)

overall:

2M births since 1880

#13 (100th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daniel".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
8,260
Peak Births
295
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1900
Peak Percentile
34.4%
Current Percentile
1.4%
Peak Rank
#354
Current Rank
#934
Female statistics
Total Births
1,966,009
Peak Births
38,563
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.6%
Current Percentile
98.2%
Peak Rank
#5
Current Rank
#17
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Daniel

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Daniel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.2% confident that Daniel is pronounced as DA-nyuhl. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-neel, at 9.8% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Daniel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Daniel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DA-nyayl (2 syllables)
3 names 995 births
D AE1 N Y EY0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AE1 N Y 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.