Donald
Donald is ranked 672nd among boys in 2024 (405 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- #672down 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4050.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 193430,407 births
- Best rank
- #6in 1934
- Since 1880
- 1,419,980people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,414,419 boys have been named Donald in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 30,407 births — 2.9% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 405 births in 2024, against 30,407 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1930s alone account for 20%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 96 of them in the top 100 and 20 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,561 girls have also been given it, 0.39% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Donald | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 548 | |
| 1890s | 1,786 | |
| 1900s | 4,632 | |
| 1910s | 57,002 | |
| 1920s | 191,817 | |
| 1930s | 283,716 | |
| 1940s | 247,829 | |
| 1950s | 273,576 | |
| 1960s | 172,620 | |
| 1970s | 82,440 | |
| 1980s | 50,845 | |
| 1990s | 26,756 | |
| 2000s | 12,005 | |
| 2010s | 6,708 | |
| 2020s | 2,139 |
In 1934, its biggest year
Donald was the 6th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1934 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1934.
Names that rose and fell with Donald
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Daroldpeak 1932
- Genepeak 1937
- Darlpeak 1928
- Doylepeak 1931
- Donpeak 1946
- Deraldpeak 1929
- Geroldpeak 1939
- Farrellpeak 1935
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.