Daniel

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (Daniyyel) = '(my) judge is God' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Danial
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dánial
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Faroese
Daniel
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Daníel
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Icelandic
Dániel
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Faroese
Daniele
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Daniell
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Danish Swedish
Danjal
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Danish Faroese
Dánjal
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Faroese
Danjel
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Swedish
Danner
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Danish
Dannil
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Swedish
Deniel
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Finish Norwegian Swedish
Deníel
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Icelandic

See also:
Female forms: Daniela, Danielia, Danieline, Danlína
Variant forms: Danelius, Daniil (Russian), Danijel (South Slavic), Danival (Icelandic), Taneli (Finnish), Tâniale (Greenlandic)
Short forms: Dan, Dani, Danni

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Danielinpoika Finland
Danielsen Denmark Norway
Danielson Norway Sweden
Danielssen Norway
Danielsson Iceland Norway Sweden
Danielssøn Norway
Danielsøn Norway

Female

Danieldatter Norway
Danielintytär Finland
Danielsdatter Denmark Norway
Danielsdotter Norway Sweden
Danielsdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Daniel
Genitive: Daniels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Daniel
Genitive: Danielin
Partitive: Danielia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Daniel
Accusative: Daniel
Dative: Daniel
Genitive: Daniels
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Daniel
Genitive: Daniels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Daniel
Genitive: Daniels

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

19 April

Finland Finland

11 December

Norway Norway

11 December

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

11 December

Sweden Sweden

11 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12,685 people were named Daniel (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %) [11]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[15]
56684 90174 8 247 56676 89927
Denmark Denmark[16]
20563
n.a.
3
n.a.
20560
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
20357
n.a.
40
n.a.
20317
Iceland Iceland[17]
370 488
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
136 388
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
18920
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
18920
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Daniel (m) Sources: [15][16][13][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Daniel (m) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Daniel (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Daniel (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Daniel (m)


References

  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  16. 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  19. details see Name Statistic tables