Donell
Donell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 764th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195999 births
- Best rank
- #764in 1956
- Since 1915
- 5,405people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,814 boys have been named Donell in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 99 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 17%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 591 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Donell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 21 | |
| 1920s | 107 | |
| 1930s | 190 | |
| 1940s | 275 | |
| 1950s | 752 | |
| 1960s | 724 | |
| 1970s | 812 | |
| 1980s | 715 | |
| 1990s | 515 | |
| 2000s | 442 | |
| 2010s | 209 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Donell was the 770th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Donell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donnellpeak 1982
- Rojeliopeak 1981
- Edwardopeak 1970
- Renardpeak 1970
- Terrancepeak 1988
- Terrencepeak 1955
- Reggiepeak 1979
- Freddrickpeak 1989
Other spellings in the data
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.