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Daniell

Gender
Boy
Say it
DAN-yel
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#12,003 for boys

Daniell is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is my judge”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Daniell mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Daniel; from Hebrew Daniyyel

“God is my judge”

In the Bible Daniel was a prophet who survived a night in the lions' den.

Meaning borrowed from Daniel. More on Wiktionary.

Is Daniell a girl's or a boy's name?

Daniell is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Daniell in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Daniell, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 1979, with 33 boys. It first appears in the records in 1951.

Half of all the boys named Daniell in the US since 1880 were born between 1977 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 8,105 boys in the US were given Daniell or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #29, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 78% of the babies named Daniell in the US in 1969, and 67% in 2004.

1951Busiest: 33 in 19792025
Daniell in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20240–
202310#7,733
20220–
20210–
20206#10,599
20197#9,750
20185#12,150
20176#10,770
20165#12,180
20150–
201411#7,043
20136#10,722
201214#5,995
20119#8,072
20109#8,133
200911#7,231
200811#7,182
200715#5,658
20069#7,992
200514#5,572
200410#6,970
200317#4,611
200211#6,081
20019#6,928
200013#5,290
199911#5,650
199822#3,386
199712#4,954
19967#7,129
19959#5,922
19949#5,862
199316#3,812
199210#5,228
19917#6,511
199021#2,946
198918#3,199
198811#4,157
198725#2,268
198627#2,094
198521#2,426
198422#2,291
198323#2,207
198222#2,268
198124#2,137
198022#2,284
197933#1,711
197821#2,205
197723#2,063
197617#2,507
197529#1,703
197422#1,983
197324#1,817
19726#4,438
19718#3,656
197012#2,738
19698#3,313
19685#4,135
19675#3,964
19668#2,985
19650–
19646#3,600
19637#3,317
19628#3,039
19617#3,354
19607#3,335
19590–
19585#3,942
19575#3,991
19560–
19550–
19545#3,825
19530–
19527#3,092
19516#3,362

Nicknames for Daniell

Names like Daniell

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Daniell

Names related to Daniell

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Daniell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/daniell, updated 20 October 2026.