I'd rather think that Данил is a completely different name and has nothing to do with Даниил. Данила really is a shortened variant of Даниил, and it has another short form Даня, but never Данил, it sounds more like some Arabic name than Slavic. And a friend of mine has given the name Даниил to her son, he is now 6 years old, so you can see recently there has grown a tendency among Russians to come back to the roots, to revive old traditions, so archaic names have now become fairly widespread. Almost every other girl is now called Настя :) And for Russian immigrants in Canada it seems rather natural to suffer from nostalgie and to give their son a traditional Russian name.
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Date: 2007-10-04 03:51 pm (UTC)And a friend of mine has given the name Даниил to her son, he is now 6 years old, so you can see recently there has grown a tendency among Russians to come back to the roots, to revive old traditions, so archaic names have now become fairly widespread. Almost every other girl is now called Настя :) And for Russian immigrants in Canada it seems rather natural to suffer from nostalgie and to give their son a traditional Russian name.