Danyel
Recorded 1964–2025 · United States
Danyel was most popular in 1976, when 155 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,500 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,249 people named Danyel.
Danyel over time
How old is the name Danyel?
Danyel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1964, which makes it about 61 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 62 of the 62 years since.
How many people are named Danyel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,249 American births named Danyel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,139 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Danyel in 2025?
6 American babies were named Danyel in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Danyel getting more or less popular?
Danyel is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 7 births a year, against 26 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -73% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Danyel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Danyel is a unisex name — 77.3% of the 3,249 Americans given it were girls and 22.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2011 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 6% girls and 94% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Danyel?
Roughly 3,139 Americans named Danyel are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 39 years old, and half are between 28 and 49.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Danyel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org