Daniele
Masculine · “God is my judge”
Daniele is given to both — 780 boys and 3,564 girls since 1880. See Daniele as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Daniele is a man's name in Italy and a woman's name in France, and both countries are entirely right. Italian keeps the Latin masculine ending; French adds a silent e to make a feminine and puts an accent on the one before it. Strip the accent, as American records do, and the two collapse into one spelling — which is why this name is recorded here for both.
How old is the name Daniele?
Daniele first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Daniele alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 700 people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daniele most popular?
Daniele peaked in 1975, reaching #1753 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Daniyyel to Daniele
The story of Daniele
Daniel is a court official in Babylon in the book that carries his name, and every famous scene in it — the writing on the wall, the fiery furnace, the lions — happens inside palace politics. The name spread through Christian Europe and every language made its own forms. Italian arrived at Daniele for men, French at Danièle for women, and the two look identical once an American form strips the accent. That is not a mistake anyone made; it is what happens when a filing system has no room for diacritics.
Meaning
God is my judge
From the Hebrew Daniyyel, joining the word for judge to el, the older Semitic word for God. It is a complete sentence rather than a description, and it is a claim about where judgment properly comes from — which fits the book it belongs to, where the hero spends his career being judged by kings.
How the name formed
- Daniyyel
- Daniel
- Daniele
Related forms: Daniele · Danièle · Daniela · Daniyyel · Daniil
Pronouncing Daniele
dan-YELL
Two syllables in the French reading, with the stress at the back. Italian says it in four — da-nee-EH-leh — with the final e sounded, because Italian sounds every vowel. American families use the French shape almost universally.
Nicknames for Daniele
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1962
- Most boys named
- 197528 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1753reached in 1975
- Change vs 2018
- −37.5%5 in 2022, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daniele in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daniele in Italian — same name
- Danièle in French — same name
- Daniela in Spanish — same name
- Daniyyel in Hebrew — transliteration
- Daniil in Russian — same name
Danieles among us
people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Daniele sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a standard name in two European languages rather than a variation on one.
- Dani is available and works in every language the name appears in.
- The meaning is a complete sentence and takes four words to give.
- It genuinely works for a child of either sex, and two countries prove it.
- Danielle is the standard American women's spelling and will be written instead.
- In Italy the name is a man's, which causes real confusion on international paperwork.
- Nearly every child given this spelling in America is a girl, so a boy carrying the Italian form will meet the assumption constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danieles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Daniele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daniele in 2025?
- Daniele is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Daniele with classmates?
- Daniele will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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