girls:
2.5k births since 1964
#3456 (40th percentile)
boys:
723 births since 1966
#3864 (16th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1964
#4794 (38th percentile)
The name Danyel is the #4,794 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,234 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 38.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,456 (39.5% percentile) for all time with 2,511 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #3,864 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 723 births since 1966.
Danyel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1966 for boys).
The name Danyel has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Danyel were girls. Interestingly, until around 2011, the name was more popular for girls (81.7% girls from 1964 to 2010), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (79.0% boys from 2011 to 2023).
For girls, Danyel reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 15.9% percentile (ranked #639) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 80 births per million (ranked 15.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
For boys, Danyel reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #632) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Danyel ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 21.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Danyel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Danyel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.0% confident that Danyel is pronounced as DA-nyehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-nyuhl, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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