Given name
Danylo
Danylo is a masculine given name from Ukrainian. It is used in English and French.
Original UkrainianДанило
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Danylo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 144
- 144 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 23
- #4,427 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 23 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,427 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, Illinois had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (9). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 396 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Danylo’s family of names
In French usage, Danylo was borrowed from the Ukrainian form Данило.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Данилоsource · Ukrainian
- Danielequivalent
- Daniloequivalent
- Danilaequivalent
- Danylequivalent
- Danyilequivalent
- Даниїлequivalent
- Даниелequivalent
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People named Danylo
- Danylo ZabolotnyUkrainian and Soviet epidemiologist, President of AS of the USSR (1866–1929)
- Danylo SikanUkrainian footballerborn 2001
- Danylo SapunovOlympian, triathleteborn 1982
- Danylo KonovalovUkrainian diverborn 2003
- Danylo SkoropadskyiUkrainian politician (1904-1957)
- Danylo KucherUkrainian association football playerborn 1997
- Danylo Karasassociation football player (1997-)
- Danylo NechaiCossack military leader1612–1651
- Danylo DemutskyiSoviet-Ukrainian camera operator (1893-1954)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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