Daniel

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Daniel

Gender: Masculine
Language: English, French
Etymology:
Daniel is the English form of a Hebrew name. Originally it meant “the Lord has Judged,” from “dan” (judge), and “el” (God).

History:
In the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, Daniel was a rare, religious name. Everyday use of the name appeared with the Normans after 1066. Daniel was common in the 13th and 14th centuries, less so in the 15th and 16th, but was revived in the 1600s. It again entered into a decline during the 1800s, but has since become highly popular again.

Pronunciation: dan-yull.

Diminutives:
English: Dan, Dannie, Danny.
Hawaiian: Kana, Kani.

Alternates: Danial, Daniiel, Dannet, Danyell.
Basque: Danel.
Breton: Deniel, Denoel.
Dutch: Daniël.
Finnish: Taneli.
Hawaiian: Kaniele.
Hungarian: Dániel.
Italian: Daniele.
Polish: Danil, Danilo.
Russian: Daniil, Danilo.
Ukrainian: Danylko, Danylets.
Welsh: Deiniol.

Surnames:
English: Daniels, Danielson.
Latinized: Danielis.
Swedish: Danielsson.

Feminine Forms: Danielle, Dana.

See also: Dan, Dana, Danny.

Famous Bearers:
Artists and Authors:
Daniel of Kiev (Russian: Daniil Kievsky) (circa 1107)
Russian travel writer.
Daniele da Volterra (1509-1566)
Italian painter.
Daniël Heinsius (Heins) (1580-1655)
Dutch poet.
Daniele Crespi (1595-1630)
Italian painter.
Daniel Defoe (Foe) (1660-1731)
British author. Wrote Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Marot (1661-1752)
Dutch architect.
Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801)
German painter.
Dániel Berzsenyi (1776-1836)
Hungarian poet.
Daniel Maclise (1806-1870)
Irish painter.
Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904)
American composer. Wrote Dixie.
Daniel Owen (1836-1895)
Welsh novelist.
Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912)
American architect.
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
American sculptor.
Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953)
American composer.
Daniel François Malherbe (1881-1969)
South African poet and novelist.
Daniel Barenboim (1942-)
Israeli pianist.

Educators, Scholars, and Social Workers:
Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908)
American educator. First president of John Hopkins University.
Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941)
American scholar. Founder of the Merrymount Press.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-)
American social historian.
Daniel Bell (1919-)
American sociologist.

Miscellaneous:
Daniel Greysolon DuLhut (1639-1710)
French explorer. Duluth, Minnesota is named for him.
Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
American frontiersman and folk hero.
Daniel Morgan (1736-1802)
American general during the Revolutionary War.
Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836)
English pugilist.
Daniel Drew (1797-1879)
American railroad tycoon.
Daniel Macmillan (1813-1857)
Scottish publisher. Co-founder of Macmillan Publishing.
Sir Daniel Gooch, Baronet (1816-1889)
English mechanical engineer, railroad pioneer, and layer of the first transatlantic cable.
Daniel De Leon (1852-1914)
American socialist and co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Daniel Raymond Quisenberry (1953-1998)
American baseball player.

Political Figures:
Daniel O’Neill (1612-1664)
Irish royalist during the English Civil War.
Daniel Dulany (1685-1753)
Irish-American colonial lawyer.
Daniel Shays (1747-1825)
Former American officer and leader of the unsuccessful Shays’ Rebellion.
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847)
Irish member of Parliament.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
American politician and famous orator.
Daniel Pollen (1813-1896)
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1875 to 1876.
Daniel F. Malan (1874-1959)
South African politician who instituted the harmful apartheid.
Daniel Oduber Quirós (1921-1991)
President of Costa Rica from 1974 to 1978.
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (1924-)
President of Kenya.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1661-1752)
American Democratic politician.
Daniel Ortega Saavedra (1945-)
President of Nicaragua.

Religious Figures:
Daniel
From the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. Daniel was delivered from the lion’s den.
Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660-1741)
Polish Protestant leader.

Royalty:
Daniel Romanovich of Galicia (Russian: Danilo Galitsky) (1201-1264)
Ruler of Galicia and Volhynia (in Poland).
Danilo I of Montenegro (1670-1735)
Remembered for massacring Muslims.
Danilo II of Montenegro (1826-1860)
Assassinated.

Scientists:
Daniel Quare (1648-1724)
English clock maker. Invented the repeating watch.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
German physicist. Developed the Fahrenheit temperature scale and the alcohol thermometer.
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
Swiss mathematician.
Daniel Cowan Jackling (1869-1956)
American mining engineer.
Daniel Bovet (1907-1992)
Winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Daniel Mazia (1912-1996)
American cell biologist.
Daniel Nathans (1928-1999)
American microbiologist. Co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Daniel C. Tsui (1939-)
American physicist. Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Daniel Gray Quillen (1940-)
American mathematician. Winner of the 1978 Fields Medal.

Singers and Entertainers:
Daniel Raymond Massey (1933-1998)
British actor.
Daniel Day-Lewis (1957-)
British actor.

Popularity of Daniel:
Percentage from the 1990 U.S. Census:
0.974 % named Daniel
0.190 % named Danny
0.101 % named Dan
0.042 named Dana
0.008 named Danial
0.005 % named Dannie
0.004 named Danilo

Popularity of Daniel:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1800: 11th most popular.
1850: 19th most popular.
1875: 21st most popular.
1900-1910: 56th most popular.
1910-1920: 55th most popular.
1920-1930: 44th most popular.
1930-1940: 40th most popular.
1940-1950: 22nd most popular.
1950-1960: 19th most popular.
1960-1970: 18th most popular.
1970-1980: 11th most popular.
1973: 10th most popular.
1974: 10th most popular.
1975: 10th most popular.
1979: 10th most popular.
1980-1990: 6th most popular.
1980: 10th most popular.
1981: 10th most popular.
1983: 5th most popular.
1984: 6th most popular.
1985: 6th most popular.
1986: 6th most popular.
1987: 6th most popular.
1988: 6th most popular.
1989: 6th most popular.
1990: 5th most popular.
1991: 5th most popular.
1992: 6th most popular.
1993: 5th most popular.
1994: 8th most popular.
1995: 8th most popular.
1996: 9th most popular.
1997: 11th most popular.
1998: 11th most popular.
1999: 9th most popular.
2000: 9th most popular.
2001: 9th most popular.
2002: 9th most popular.
2003: 8th most popular.

In France...
1900: 66th most popular.
1910: 55th most popular.
1920: 48th most popular.
1930: 28th most popular.
1940: 9th most popular.
1950: 6th most popular.
1960: 13th most popular.
1970: 38th most popular.
1980: 73rd most popular.
1990: 135th most popular.
1999: 178th most popular.
2000: N/A

In Ireland...
1998: 10th most popular.
1999: 9th most popular.
2000: 11th most popular.
2001: 11th most popular.
2002: 6th most popular.
2003: 6th most popular.

Popularity of Danial:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1940-1950: 744th most popular.
1950-1960: 604th most popular.
1960-1970: 665th most popular.
1970-1980: 733rd most popular.
1980-1990: 946th most popular.
1990-2000: N/A