Daniele
Barely 360 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, so most Poles will never meet one. It's the Italian form of Daniel, from the Hebrew for "god is my judge".
Daniele Pronunciation
Daniele is pronounced dah-NYE-le (/daˈɲɛlɛ/).
What Daniele means
Where Daniele comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Daniele is the Italian form of a name that began in Hebrew. It joins two elements, dan, meaning judge, and el, one of the names of God, into a short sentence: God is my judge. The prophet Daniel brought that sentence into scripture, and Italy kept it in the softer Daniele.
In Poland the name arrives mostly through its variants. Daniel is the form a boy meets on a school register, and Daniela the form written next to a girl's name. Daniele sits between them as the Italian cousin.
Behind all three stands the same claim: bóg jest moim sędzią. The Renaissance painter Daniele da Volterra wore it while working beside Michelangelo in Rome, where he painted draperies over the nude figures of the Last Judgment and earned the nickname Il Braghettone. The meaning has not moved. God is my judge.
How many people are named Daniele
1 in 62783 men in Poland is named Daniele. 359 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1580 among male names.
Daniele's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Daniele as a middle name
Daniele is a first name for 359 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1322nd, between César (37) and Dastin (37).
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#1320 Cyrus37
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#1321 César37
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#1322 Daniele37
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#1323 Dastin37
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#1324 Deepak37