Daniel
877
Babies in 2024
-68%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 10.3k
-3%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Daniel
Daniel peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (10,338 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 877 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Daniel reached its peak in 1996, when 10,338 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 877 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 120,900 boys have been officially registered with the name Daniel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 18,060 boys were registered with the name, starting from 2,775 in 2014 and ending at 877 in 2024.