Meaning of the nameDanilo

Danilo is a male name of Slavic origin, a form of Daniel, a Hebrew name meaning 'God is my judge'.

Meaning

“form of Daniel, 'God is my judge'”

Source: Wiktionary: Daniel (English, do Hebrew)

People (2022): 230,342
Rank in Brazil: #137
Median age: 28 years
2010 Census: 233,329; people

Danilo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Danilo, 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 (73,728 people).

1,189 women 229,153 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 Danilo is most common

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

São Paulo 0.164%
Bahia 0.155%
Sergipe 0.144%
Goiás 0.140%
Distrito Federal 0.127%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	72,785	0.164%
Bahia	21,936	0.155%
Minas Gerais	19,874	0.097%
Rio de Janeiro	13,274	0.083%
Pernambuco	10,950	0.121%
Paraná	10,535	0.092%
Goiás	9,860	0.140%
Pará	8,778	0.108%
Ceará	6,565	0.075%
Maranhão	6,508	0.096%
Rio Grande do Sul	5,248	0.048%
Paraíba	4,721	0.119%
Santa Catarina	4,641	0.061%
Mato Grosso	3,755	0.103%
Espírito Santo	3,714	0.097%
Distrito Federal	3,563	0.127%
Piauí	3,252	0.099%
Amazonas	3,204	0.081%
Sergipe	3,175	0.144%
Alagoas	3,104	0.099%
Rio Grande do Norte	2,968	0.090%
Mato Grosso do Sul	2,889	0.105%
Tocantins	1,722	0.114%
Rondônia	1,334	0.084%
Amapá	898	0.122%
Acre	561	0.068%
Roraima	528	0.083%

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

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.

It is the most common spelling in the group, with a single L, as in the Italian and Serbo-Croatian form.

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 Danilo

What does the name Danilo mean?

Danilo means “form of Daniel, 'God is my judge'”, according to Wiktionary.

How many people are named Danilo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 230,342 people with the first name Danilo, which ranks it number 137 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Danilo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 1,189 women and 229,153 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Danilo?

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

In which Brazilian state is Danilo most common?

Proportionally, in São Paulo: 0.164% of the state's population is named Danilo (72,785 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Danilo?

Danillo. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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