boys:
4.3k births since 1946
#1847 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1946
#4166 (46th percentile)
The name Danilo is the #4,166 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,326 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 46.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,847 (59.7% percentile) for all time with 4,326 births since 1946.
Danilo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for boys in 1946). Birth data for Danilo is available in 75 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Danilo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 22.0% percentile (ranked #721) with 112 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 112 births per million (ranked 22.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Danilo is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #711 (22.0% percentile) with 112 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danilo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Danilo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Danilo is pronounced as duh-NEE-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dah-NEE-loh, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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