Danyla
Feminine · “God is my judge”
Danyla is a women's form built on Daniel, and the Hebrew name is a courtroom claim: God is my judge.
How old is the name Danyla?
Danyla first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Danyla is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Danyla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Danyla most popular?
Danyla peaked in 2021, reaching #2958 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 1,502 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Danyla
Ours, offered as ours. Daniel's book is set in a court in every sense — the Babylonian and then the Persian one, with its officials, its accusations and its sentences — and the name says God is my judge, which in that setting is a claim about jurisdiction rather than a pious sentiment. The man is repeatedly tried by earthly authorities and repeatedly answers to a different one. Danyla is a modern women's form of the same claim.
Meaning
God is my judge
From Hebrew dan, to judge, and el, God; the compound is a complete sentence. Daniel is the exile at the Babylonian court, and the book's setting makes the legal metaphor concrete.
Pronouncing Danyla
duh-NY-lah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say DAN-ee-lah.
Nicknames for Danyla
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
- 2002
- Most girls named
- 202156 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2958reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −27.9%31 in 2025, from 43
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.
Danyla in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daniela in Spanish — related form
- Daniyyel in Hebrew — related form
- Danylo in Ukrainian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, Michigan, Florida.
Danylas among us
people named Danyla are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Danyla
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Danyla
- #4460
- Danyla on the 2025 chart
- #877
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Danyla went to 31 girls in 2025, but Danylah, Danila and Daniylah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 83, which makes it the 877th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,583 places above the chart.
- Danyla31
- Danylah24
- Danila9
- Daniylah9
- Danilah5
- Daniyla5
About 1 girl in 19,365 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Danyla itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rosene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Danyla's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rosene climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rosene's path sketches the road Danyla is walking now.
Danyla sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Danyla is headed
Danyla should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Danyla beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Danyla in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Dani and Nyla are both complete short forms in current use.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- Daniela and Danielle are both far more common and will be assumed.
- In Ukrainian Danylo is a men's name, which is a real difference.
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Frequently asked
- How many Danylas 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 Danyla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Danyla?
- Danyla is the most-used spelling in US records — 31 of the 83 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Danylah, Danila, Daniylah, Danilah and Daniyla.
- How popular is the name Danyla in 2025?
- Danyla ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Danyla?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Danyla — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Danyla with classmates?
- Danyla will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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