as a First Name
In modern use this is taken as a short form of Daniel, although increasingly used in its own right, but it is also an independent biblical name, meaning ‘he judged’ in Hebrew, borne by one of Jacob's twelve sons (Genesis 30:6).
| 290th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 212,830
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Dan per capita
- 1958
- marked the height of its popularity
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3%
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2%
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