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Daniels

Daniels is a masculine given name. It is used in English and Latvian.

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Meaning & origin

How it developed

Built from English Daniel + -s.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1945. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Daniels through the years

Babies since 1880
39
39 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1945
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02461960198020002025Highest share 19450.0
Daniels in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1945–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 322 as a first name in 2020; 141,286 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Daniels’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Daniels has a feminine form in Daniela. In Latvian usage, Daniels has a conventional equivalent in the English form Daniel. In English usage, Daniels as a surname has a related form in Daniel.

Walk Daniels’s family in the name graph

DanielsDanielDanielaDaniëlDániel

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Daniels has relatives in 5 languages.

2 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Daniels

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Mythological

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Andris

“manliness” · “virility”

11Very rare

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Biblical

Danial

“God is my judge”

15Very rareEasing

>99% boys

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