Daniel in Arabic: How to Write دانيال, and What It Means

Daniel in Arabic is دانيال (Dāniyāl), the prophet of the Book of Daniel in the Arabic Bible. It is also how Arabic writes most English speakers named Daniel: our name tool gives دانيال, and so does Arabic Wikipedia for Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Craig. Daniel is not named in the Quran.

Copy دانيال from the table. It serves for the biblical name and for an English speaker named Daniel alike, and the Listen button reads it in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Daniel in Arabic calligraphy: دانيال in three styles

Three renders of دانيال, in Amiri, Reem Kufi and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

One spelling for every Daniel: دانيال

دانيال serves for the prophet, whose book Arabic Wikipedia calls سفر دانيال, for an Arab Christian named Daniel, and for Daniel Craig. One title in the table further down, Daniel Defoe's, writes دانييل with a second yāʾ. Wikipedia's article on Daniel in Islam notes that he is mentioned neither in the Quran nor in Sunni hadith.

How Arabic Wikipedia writes people called Daniel

For the prophet Daniel, Arabic Wikipedia uses the Arabic form. For the five modern people called Daniel in the table below, its titles write دانيال four times and دانييل once. Our name tool gives دانيال, the spelling of Daniel Radcliffe's article.

How دانيال is spelled, letter by letter

دانيال has six letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter د, dāl. د dāl and ا alif never join the letter after them, so دانيال always shows three small gaps. None of the sources we used marks its short vowels, so this page gives it without them.

What does Daniel mean?

Daniel means God is my judge, according to Behind the Name. The Hebrew Daniyyel means God is my judge, from din, to judge, and ʾel, God. Daniel was one of the 25 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package.

Two related names on this site are David in Arabic, داود and Michael in Arabic, ميخائيل. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

Write دانيال in more fonts and download it

Paste دانيال into the box below, or into our Arabic calligraphy generator, to draw it in 12 more fonts and save it as a PNG.

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