Baby Daniel?

[Thatbloodybear]

I'm helping DSis look at baby names (at her request, I'm not being pushy) and was amazed to see Daniel is way up at the top of most popular boys names.

I have never met a Dan / Danny / Daniel under 30 and I work with the public and meet A LOT of people, never heard of anyone naming their new baby Daniel. Is it a regional thing? We're in the SW and it's all Caspian and Reuban around here.

How many have you met? Your sample size probably renders that insignificant.

I def considered it but it clashed with another name in the family.

The only one I know is eight years old.

I love the name Daniel. It's still very popular in Jewish circles.

I have a primary school age Daniel. Some people call him Dan or Danny but I liked the fact he could choose it for himself when he gets older. (I prefer Danny!). We have an unusual surname so classic/simple first names are essential!

It was one of the most popular names in the 90s when I had my children, and we know/have known lots over the years. I think it has now become slightly less popular, but still fairly common like Ben, Thomas or James, because it is a nice, classic name.

DSis likes it, but brother in law has declared it to be a Catholic name and isn't fussed. I hadn't realised biblical names were Catholic / Protestant? They are very atheist not anti Catholic BTW.

If anything it's a Jewish name, but most people won't choose it for any religious reason.

I know loads of Daniels, from my age (40s) to young children. I thought it was a bit of a timeless name, like James or Thomas.

Artie well, it’s biblical. If they are atheist, he might just mean that.

It's my DS2's middle name He's 22
Lovely name

I have a Daniel, he's 8. No reason in particular weren't even on my list until he was born and He just looked like a Daniel 🤷🏻‍♀️

Another in NI and Daniel is still very popular.

We’re not as adventurous with names here, so people tend to stick to the classics as opposed to Caspian or Atticus etc.

Lots of baby Matthews around here as well

We have few children in our church called Daniel

I had a baby Daniel. He is 7 now. He gets callled Dan, Danny and daniel... I like how versatile it is. Although I think it’s quite a “meh” name in a good way that it won’t be strongly liked nor disliked. And it’s timeless.

I taught a good smattering of teenage Daniels through the 00s to mid-10s so it's not a name linked strongly to any one generation.
I can think of one of my friend's children aged about 6.
My DSs are both in girl heavy classes so out of 61 children only 23 are boys anyway

If you like it, go for it. It's a well established, mainstream tradtional name so hard to go wrong on
It also passes the easy spelling/pronounciation test

I have a 6 year old Daniel and my youngest is at nursery with a 4 year old Daniel

I believe it has Hebrew origins. We just chose it because we didn't like any other boys names. That was fun when we found out DS2 was on the way!

Such a lovely name

I have as ds daniel who is 14.

There are 2 in my Y2 daughters year group of 17...

I have a Daniel . I don’t think it’s dated . He goes by Dan with his friends

Daniel is lovely.

My Catholic mother doesn't consider old testament names to be particularly catholic. My DH is called it and his mum is Baptist. But I don't think it's really anything - just a classic name, which is slightly less common now because of all the Oscars. There's one in each of my kids' years at school. It's a bit like James in popularity - there will always be the odd handful.

However I do agree that every other person my DH's age is called it.

@happymummy12345 my 4 and a half year old is called Daniel

Dan, danny and a daniel in Dds year (60 kids).

I like it.

I have a Daniel age 11 beautiful name 😀

I have a Daniel too,though once he became a teenager everyone called him Dan.