Daniel

At the 2020 census, 78,123 Americans bore the surname Daniel — 407th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,826.

By the numbers

People: 78,123
Rank: 407th
How common: 1 in 3,826
Per 100,000: 26.1

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Daniel, Daniell, from Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ, from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל, name borne from the prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Daniel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.3%
Black, not Hispanic 26.6%
Hispanic or Latino 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Daniel

Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (born 1973)husband of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Kang Daniel (born 1996)South Korean singer
Trevor Daniel (born 1994)American singer-songwriter
Ahn Daniel (born 1994)South Korean singer and dancer

People named Daniel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Daniel

Also a first name

Daniel has been given to 1,991,091 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1985. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.