Baby boy name ideas

[Mummyjg]

Is baby name Daniel old fashioned or is it still common. Looking for a classic but still modern cute boy name 🙏

I think Daniel is a great name, a classic name.

I don't know if Daniel is an old fashioned name, I am not originally from an English-speaking country. Hopefully someone who is can answer what they think.

Don't like it personally it's quite a 40 year old man's name now

A few on my list for our boy were
Roman
Rowan
Frankie
Chester
Walter
Albert

daniel is a bit dated but still generally nice!

samuel
benjamin
joel
harry
lewis
zachary
danny

Not that common but I've met one little Daniel. Perfectly fine.
Popular classics I've come across a lot:

George
James
Alexander
Louis
Thomas
Oliver
Henry
Oscar
Edward
William
Noah
Jacob (+ many old testament names like Reuben, Isaac, Josiah, Ezra etc.)
Frederick
Albert
Alfred
Sebastian
Arthur
Benjamin
Eric

Also met (but not many, maybe only one) little ones called:
Joseph
Matthew
Martin
Christopher
Samuel
Raphael
Michael
Edmund
Nathaniel
Alistair

I think a lot of the old classics would sound fine-
Anthony, David, Charles, John,.Jonathan, Robert, Richard etc.

I love it and think it's due a revival

Dan/danny- bit used car salesman.

It's not old enough to be retro.

Too 1970s

Love Daniel!

It’s one if those names that is due a revival. I think if you name him Daniel, people will think, ‘oh, I haven’t heard many of those recently , but it’s a good classic name. Go for it.

Love Daniel!

I love it!

Bemused by the idea that an Old Testament name is 'too 1970s'

It's a classic name to me, not dated at all. If you like it, you might also like names like Nathan, Samuel, Jacob, Joshua.

It's really not dated. Very much in use. At least one in each year group at our primary. Other angel names like Michael not in such common use (and maybe due a comeback?)

There aren’t loads of Daniel’s around us but I know an 11 year old one, a 5 year old one and a brand new baby one, so it does get used and is a nice name.

Fabulous name.
It’s on my boy list.

I find Dan/Danny overused and dated personally.

Babies called Daniel in England & Wales since 1996
Was very popular in the 1990s, but it's still in use.

It's a classic and a nice name.

It's a winner

I like that I loved the name Danny or Dan aswel. Just a nice name x

I think it's a good, solid name.
Not trendy or faddy but also not dated either. It's a classic that works as well on a small child as it does on an adult

Love it! And Danny as a nickname

Daniel is quite classic. It might not be the top 10 name it was throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s, but it has consistently remained in and around the top 50 so is definitely still in use today. I've taught a few over the last 15 years I have been teaching for, spread out evenly across the years.

Names of a similar style which are all very classic but not overly popular these days:-

Matthew
Adam
Luke
Joseph
Samuel
Benjamin
Michael
Robert
Peter
David

Traditional classics which are more commonly used still in 2024 but are not 'trendy' popular:-

James
Thomas
Alexander
William
Edward
Henry
George

It’s classic and not overdone at the moment, good choice