Daniel
Meaning of Daniel
Daniel zips through time like a bright comet, starting in ancient Hebrew lands where Daniyyel meant “God is my judge,” and landing in nurseries from Miami to Montevideo today. He first won fame as the fearless young prophet who napped beside lions—talk about a bedtime story! Centuries later, he still struts across soccer fields, concert stages, and boardrooms, answering to laid-back nicknames like Dan and Danny. English speakers say DAN-yuhl, while abuelitas roll it into a warm “Dah-NYEHL,” but either way the name sounds friendly and strong. Classic yet never dusty, Daniel has camped out near the top of U.S. charts for over a century, proving he’s as enduring as a Caribbean sunrise. Give a boy this name and he inherits courage, charm, and a built-in anthem—“¡Vamos, Daniel!” The world, and apparently even the lions, are ready to cheer him on.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as DAN-yuhl (/ ˈdæn.jəl /)
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Notable People Named Daniel
| Daniel Radcliffe is an English actor best known for playing Harry Potter in all eight films from 2001 to 2011. |
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| American frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in 1775, founded Boonesborough, and opened Kentucky to hundreds of thousands of settlers. |
| Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is an English actor widely considered one of the greatest, winner of three Academy Awards and knighted in 2014. |
| Daniel Pearl, an American Wall Street Journal reporter covering the post September 11 war on terror, was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002 while investigating alleged links between Richard Reid and al Qaeda. |
| Daniel Alfredsson is a Swedish Canadian former NHL player who spent 18 seasons mostly with the Ottawa Senators, later served as an assistant coach there, and briefly played for the Detroit Red Wings before retiring in 2014. |
| English actor Daniel Kaluuya is an Academy Award BAFTA SAG and Golden Globe winner named to Time magazine 100 most influential people in 2021. |
| Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research on judgment, decision-making, and behavioral economics challenged assumptions of human rationality and earned him the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
| Daniel Suárez - Daniel Suarez is a Mexican American NASCAR driver, the 2016 Xfinity Series champion and first foreign born major series winner, now racing full time in the Cup Series for Trackhouse Racing. |
| Daniel Auber - Daniel Francois Esprit Auber was a French composer who led the Paris Conservatoire. |
| Daniel Paul Tammet is an English writer and savant whose award-winning memoir Born on a Blue Day and later bestsellers Embracing the Wide Sky and Thinking in Numbers have been published in over 20 languages. |
| Daniel D. Tompkins was a former New York governor who served as the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. |
| Danyell Daniel Gookin was a Munster colonist, early settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and writer on American Indians. |
| Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and Democratic United States senator from Hawaii who served from 1990 to 2013. |
