Danil
A Slavic take on Daniel, carrying the Hebrew sense "god is my judge". It stays rare in Poland, given only to boys, though a little more often now than a decade ago.
Danil Pronunciation
Danil is pronounced DAH-nyeel (/ˈdaɲil/).
What Danil means
Where Danil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Danil is the Russian form of Daniel, and Daniel is Hebrew before it is anything else. The name splits into Dan and El, which together read as "God is my judge." That sentence is old. It belonged first to a prophet in the Babylonian court, a man remembered for reading a king's dreams and surviving a den of lions.
In Poland the name arrives with a Russian accent. A boy called Danil on a school register is usually the son of a family with an eastern tie, Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, and the spelling marks that origin plainly. Somewhere in the wider family you might find a Daniel, the more familiar variant here, or a Daniela, the feminine form. They share one meaning among them.
Danil keeps its verdict close. God is my judge, said without apology.
How many people are named Danil
1 in 14221 men in Poland is named Danil. 1,501 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #795 among male names.
Danil's popularity over time
14 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #604 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017.
Where parents choose Danil
Danil is most popular in Lower Silesian, 175% above the national average (16 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+76%) and Łódź (+49%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and West Pomeranian, 76% and 36% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+175%1 in 9,821 babies
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Greater Poland
+76%1 in 15,375 babies
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Łódź
+49%1 in 18,103 babies
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Lesser Poland
−76%1 in 113,458 babies
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West Pomeranian
−36%1 in 42,213 babies
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Silesian
−29%1 in 37,931 babies
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Lower Silesian+175% 16 born1 in 9,821 babies+175%
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Greater Poland+76% 14 born1 in 15,375 babies+76%
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Łódź+49% 7 born1 in 18,103 babies+49%
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Pomeranian+47% 8 born1 in 18,415 babies+47%
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Masovian+45% 19 born1 in 18,646 babies+45%
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Lubusz+9% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies+9%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−1% 4 born1 in 27,345 babies−1%
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Silesian−29% 6 born1 in 37,931 babies−29%
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West Pomeranian−36% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−36%
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Lesser Poland−76% 2 born1 in 113,458 babies−76%
Danil as a middle name
Danil is a first name for 1,501 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5296th, between Danial (4) and Danish (4).
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#5294 Daminik4
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#5295 Danial4
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#5296 Danil4
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#5297 Danish4
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#5298 Davies4