Donnell
Donnell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1982290 births
- Best rank
- #479in 1968
- Since 1912
- 15,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,253 boys have been named Donnell in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 290 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 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 18%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,026 girls have also been given it, 6.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Donnell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 102 | |
| 1920s | 244 | |
| 1930s | 360 | |
| 1940s | 607 | |
| 1950s | 1,736 | |
| 1960s | 2,326 | |
| 1970s | 2,502 | |
| 1980s | 2,429 | |
| 1990s | 1,802 | |
| 2000s | 1,256 | |
| 2010s | 737 | |
| 2020s | 152 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Donnell was the 498th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1982 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Jason and David. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Donnell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reinaldopeak 1963
- Edwardopeak 1970
- Renardpeak 1970
- Donellpeak 1959
- Lonnellpeak 1970
- Lancepeak 1970
- Terrancepeak 1988
- Terancepeak 1991
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.