Given name · also Ancient Greek
Daníel
“God is my judge”
Daníel is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Daníel goes back to Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél), meaning “God is my judge.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Daníel comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Δανιήλ, from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél, “God is my judge”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Daníel’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Daníel has a conventional equivalent in the English form Daniel. In Icelandic usage, Daníel was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Δανιήλ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Daníel has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
2 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Daníel
- Daníel Ágúst HaraldssonIcelandic singerborn 1969
- Daníel Leó GrétarssonIcelandic association football playerborn 1995
- Daníel GuðjohnsenBritish-Icelandic association football playerborn 2006
- Daníel BjarnasonIcelandic composerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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