Meaning of the nameDanillo

Danillo is a spelling of the name Danilo, which means “form of Daniel, 'God is my judge'”.

Meaning

“form of Daniel, 'God is my judge'”

Meaning of the name Danilo, of which Danillo is a spelling.

Source: Wiktionary: Daniel (English, do Hebrew)

People (2022): 4,256
Rank in Brazil: #3,069
Median age: 27 years
2010 Census: 2,344; people

Danillo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Danillo, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (1,292 people).

0 women 4,239 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Danillo is most common

States with the highest share of people named Danillo in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Goiás 0.007%
Distrito Federal 0.005%
Mato Grosso 0.003%
Rio de Janeiro 0.003%
Pernambuco 0.003%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	978	0.002%
Goiás	514	0.007%
Rio de Janeiro	471	0.003%
Minas Gerais	288	0.001%
Bahia	269	0.002%
Pernambuco	243	0.003%
Paraná	173	0.002%
Pará	137	0.002%
Distrito Federal	131	0.005%
Mato Grosso	109	0.003%
Maranhão	104	0.002%
Paraíba	104	0.003%
Tocantins	90	0.006%
Sergipe	86	0.004%
Espírito Santo	69	0.002%
Santa Catarina	62	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	58	0.002%
Piauí	56	0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul	55	0.001%
Ceará	55	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	52	0.002%
Alagoas	48	0.002%
Amazonas	47	0.001%
Rondônia	22	0.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Danillo

It doubles the L, a spelling that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil includes among the spelling variants of Danilo.

About the name Danilo

Danilo is a borrowing from Italian Danilo, which comes from Serbo-Croatian Danilo, and is a doublet of Daniel, according to Wiktionary. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) cites Machado, for whom the name reached Portuguese through French and has a probable Slavic origin, from the Balkans, and Udolph, for whom it is the Bulgarian and Italian form of the Hebrew name Daniel. Wiktionary translates the Hebrew Daniyel as 'God is my judge'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 230,342 people named Danilo, with a median age of 28. The name grew among people born from the 1980s onward and peaked among those born in the 1990s; Danillo, with a double L, is one of the spelling variants listed by the dictionary.

Other spellings of Danilo

Spelling	People (2022)
Danilo	230,342
Danillo	4,256

Sources

Wiktionary: Danilo · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Danilo · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Wiktionary: Daniel (English, do Hebrew) · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

Questions about the name Danillo

What does the name Danillo mean?

Danillo means “form of Daniel, 'God is my judge'”, according to Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Danilo, of which Danillo is a spelling.

How many people are named Danillo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,256 people with the first name Danillo, which ranks it number 3,069 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Danillo a boy's or a girl's name?

Danillo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 4,239 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Danillo?

Danillo is a name of Italian, Slavic and Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Danillo most common?

Proportionally, in Goiás: 0.007% of the state's population is named Danillo (514 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Danillo?

Danilo. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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