Baby name popularity
Daniel name popularity
Daniel is a boy name at US rank 16 in the 2024 Social Security file. The popularity band on this page is popular. The rest of the page is the name's length, sound, style, and the names that pair with it.
Popularity in the United States
Ranks for 2021–2024 are the full US Social Security Administration national baby-name files: every spelling given to at least five children that year. 2025 ranks are this site's published top 1,000 boy names and top 1,000 girl names. A 2025 rank inside that list is the rank among names in the file. Country codes are a short catalog sample of places the spelling is recorded, not a popularity rank. The chart uses the boy file.
| Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boy rank | #16 | #14 | #17 | #16 | #22 |
- 5-year trend, 2021 to 2024: → Stable
- 1-year trend, 2023 to 2024: → Stable
- Into the 2025 top 1,000: ↓ Falling
- More popular than 99.8% of boy names in the 2024 Social Security file (14,243 spellings with at least five births). Rank 16.
Countries
Yearly ranks are published here for the United States only. Other countries show whether the short catalog list for this spelling includes them. That is presence, not a rank, so this page does not say a name is more popular in one country than another unless both sides have a rank.
| Country | In this dataset |
|---|---|
| United States | Rank 16 in 2024 |
| United Kingdom | Not in the short country list |
| Canada | Not in the short country list |
| Australia | Recorded in the catalog |
| Ireland | Not in the short country list |
| New Zealand | Not in the short country list |
Also recorded in Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Aruba.
Name DNA
- Gender
- boy
- Length
- 6 letters
- Syllables
- 2
- Style
- Classic · Traditional · Royal · Biblical
- Sound
- Balanced
- Popularity
- Popular
- Countries
- United States · Australia · Andorra · Antigua & Barbuda · Albania · Armenia · Austria · Aruba
Similar names
- Dane
- Danny
- Dariel
- Dante
- Dean
- Donald
Sibling matches
Middle names
- Abby
- Abel
- Ace
- Ada
- Adam
- Adan
- Ahmad
- Ahmed
Nicknames
Dan · Danny
Names that go with Daniel · Brother names · Sister names · Compare with another name
Questions
- Is Daniel becoming more popular?
- The trend lines compare full US Social Security files for 2021–2024, plus the 2025 top 1,000 when the name is on that list. Rising means the rank moved toward 1. A missing 2025 rank is not counted as a fall.
- What names go with Daniel?
- Open the sibling matches on this page, or the full list of names that go with Daniel. Names that sound too close are kept off that list.