girls:
186 births since 1970
#5530 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1923
#2581 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1923
#5263 (32nd percentile)
The name Danniel is the #5,263 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,590 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 32.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,581 (43.7% percentile) for all time with 2,404 births since 1923. For girls, it ranks #5,530 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1970.
Danniel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Danniel is available in 97 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (97 years for boys and 24 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 Danniel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Danniel reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #555) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 27 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Danniel ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 17.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Danniel reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #750) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danniel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Danniel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Danniel is pronounced as DA-nyuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-nee-uhl, at 42.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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