A baptismal name for a boy
Daniel
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Daniel
Prophet DanielDecember 17Prophet of the Babylonian captivity, who stayed faithful to the Lord at the court of the kings of Babylon.
Right-Believing Daniel of MoscowMarch 4Youngest son of Saint Alexander Nevsky and first prince of Moscow, ancestor of her rulers.
Stylite Daniel the StyliteDecember 11Stylite of the fifth century near Constantinople, venerated in East and West, who died around 493.
Venerable Daniel of PereslavlApril 7Founder of the Danilov monastery near Pereslavl, who died on April 7, 1540.
Righteous Daniel of AchinskApril 15Born in the Poltava governorate in 1784, an ascetic in Siberia who died in Yeniseysk in 1843; locally canonized in 1999._-_Daniel_of_the_Skete.jpg)
Venerable Daniel of ScetisJune 7An Egyptian monk of the Scetis desert, disciple and biographer of Saint Arsenius the Great.
Venerable Daniel the HesychastDecember 18Hesychast monk and spiritual adviser of Stephen the Great; canonized by the Romanian Church in 1992.- Saint Daniel of ThassosSeptember 12A saint venerated on the island of Thassos in northern Greece.
Martyr Daniel of CherkasyJuly 29Saint from the Cherkasy region of Ukraine, who died in 1766 at Vilshana.- Venerable Daniel of ShuzhgoraSeptember 21Wonderworker of the sixteenth century, born in Moscow, founder of the Transfiguration Monastery of Shuzhgora.
- Saint Daniel of YelisavetgradSeptember 17A Ukrainian elder of Yelisavetgrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, who lived between 1800 and 1860.
- Venerable Martyr Daniel of VladimirJune 23Hegumen born in Vladimir in the second half of the twelfth century, who died on 7 February 1238.
Questions
The name day of Daniel is December 17, the feast of Prophet Daniel. It is also kept on March 4, December 11, April 7, April 15, June 7, December 18, September 12, July 29.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Daniel, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Daniel is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Prophet Daniel as patron.