Danilo
The Italian form of a Hebrew name that means "god is my judge". It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 700 men carry it, and the trickle of recent births is fading rather than growing.
Danilo Pronunciation
Danilo is pronounced dah-NYEE-lo (/daˈɲilɔ/).
What Danilo means
Where Danilo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Danilo grows from a Hebrew root. Behind it stands Daniel, Daniyyel, whose meaning Polish gives as bóg jest moim sędzią and English as god is my judge. Italy took that older biblical name and reshaped the sound, dropped the closed ending and let it finish on an open vowel, and Danilo settled in as the Italian form.
The Hebrew sense is a small verdict. A person named Danilo answers to a judge set higher than any court, and the name states that claim plainly.
The prophet Daniel gave the name its history. He read dreams for a king, came out of the lions' den alive, and the story carried his name out of Scripture and into Italy.
In Poland the name reads as foreign yet easy to say. A teacher calling the class register meets a Danilo among the Kacpers and Szymons, and the Hebrew meaning still sits under the Italian sound: god is my judge.
How many people are named Danilo
1 in 32003 men in Poland is named Danilo. 667 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1146 among male names.
Danilo's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Danilo is most popular
Danilo is most popular in Masovian, 336% above the national average (5 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+172%).
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Masovian5 boys born+336%
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+172%
Danilo as a middle name
Danilo is a first name for 667 men in Poland and a middle name for another 52, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1039th, between Atanazy (52) and Dietmar (52).
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#1037 Achilles52
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#1038 Atanazy52
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#1039 Danilo52
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#1040 Dietmar52
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#1041 Elsayed52