Danila
A Slavic relative of Daniel, carrying the same sense: "God is my judge". Fewer than 600 people in Poland use it, nearly all of them men, so most Poles will never meet one.
Danila Pronunciation
Danila is pronounced dah-NYEE-lah (/daˈɲila/).
What Danila means
Where Danila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Danila is the East Slavic form of Daniel, and it keeps Daniel's old meaning: god is my judge. That sense reaches back to Hebrew, where the prophet Daniel bore the name long before it moved north into the Slavic lands and settled around Kyiv and Moscow. In Russian speech Danila grew into a name of its own, sitting close to Daniil while keeping a rounder, homelier sound.
The name reads as thoroughly Russian.
For many viewers it belongs to Danila Bagrov, the drifting ex-soldier at the centre of Aleksei Balabanov's 1997 film Brat. That role fixed the name in post-Soviet memory, and a Polish teacher reading a class register might still meet a Danila among the boys. Whatever the screen picks up, the plain sense holds: Danila is a Slavic Daniel, and its meaning is god is my judge.
How many people are named Danila
1 in 39974 men in Poland is named Danila. 545 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1274 among male names.
Danila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Danila is most popular
Danila is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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