Given name
Daniël
“God is my judge”
Daniël is a masculine given name from Dutch. It is used in Dutch and Afrikaans.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Daniël goes back to Latin Daniel, meaning “God is my judge.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Daniël’s family of names
In Afrikaans usage, Daniël has a diminutive in Danie. In Dutch usage, Daniël has a conventional equivalent in the English form Daniel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Daniël has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Dutch 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.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- DanielEnglish, French
- Dannieequivalent
- Daniilequivalent
- Danilaequivalent
- Danieleequivalent
- Daniellequivalent
- Danielsequivalent
- Daanequivalent
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People named Daniël
- Daniël de RidderDutch footballer (born 1984)
- Daniël NoteboomDutch chess player (1910–1932)
- Danie G. Krige1919-2013 South African mining engineer
- Daniël MenschDutch rowerborn 1978
- Daniël StellwagenDutch chess playerborn 1987
- Daniël TermontMayor of Ghentborn 1953
- Daniël van KaamDutch association football player (2000-)
- Daniël de JongDutch racing driverborn 1992
- Daniël de Blieckpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1610–1673)
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