This page shows the Daniel (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Daniel was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Daniel's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Daniel for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Daniel appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 18,825 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1991, when the table records 872 babies given the name, at rank 8 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Daniel for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20259943
20248652
202310246
202213731
202112538
202014827
201918623
201820121
201721821
201624618
201528210
20143496
20133595
20123846
20113914
20104165
20094406
20085173
20074247
20063988
20054259
200442711
200340612
200236117
200139914
200042913
199940218
199849212
199754613
19966478
19956993
199459811
199364111
19927929
19918728
199076910
198954216
198843124
198742723
198641525
198535928
198427835
198325739
198224940
198123542
198020744
197918548
197818944
197716048
197615551
197515451
197416951

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