Meaning not yet researched.
Donell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #764 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #764 in 1956; #6,554 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,554 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #764.
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Donell: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #764 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 99 (1959).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Donell, making it the 6,554th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,669 places from #9,223 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 8 boys named Donell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #764, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 99, in 1959. For comparison, it was #5,114 in 2015 and #1,027 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Donell in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,557, reached in 1962. The most girls given the name in a single year was 24, in 1968. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,044 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donell in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 8 babies. In all, 5,418 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 959 babies named Donell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 121 US boys were named Donell; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donnell (15,305 babies since 1880), Donal (3,712 babies since 1880) and Donielle (2,041 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donail are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Donail (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Donell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,554 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,223 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,003 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,208 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,223 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,387 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,895 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,379 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,869 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,324 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,114 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,820 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,505 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,928 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,134 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,089 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,068 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,019 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,732 |
| 2006 | — | — | 48 | #2,520 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,305 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,656 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,945 |
| 2002 | — | — | 47 | #2,228 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,188 |
| 2000 | — | — | 68 | #1,686 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,209 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,245 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,894 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,264 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,110 |
| 1994 | — | — | 52 | #1,718 |
| 1993 | — | — | 54 | #1,640 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,458 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,401 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,807 | 74 | #1,289 |
| 1989 | — | — | 60 | #1,415 |
| 1988 | — | — | 63 | #1,298 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,035 | 63 | #1,223 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,283 | 68 | #1,145 |
| 1985 | — | — | 81 | #1,014 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,631 | 67 | #1,100 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,920 | 77 | #1,008 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,034 | 74 | #1,060 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,041 | 81 | #1,009 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,618 | 81 | #1,006 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,169 | 83 | #974 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,665 | 81 | #964 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,716 | 94 | #874 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,695 | 87 | #890 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,203 | 80 | #919 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,524 | 83 | #886 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,421 | 79 | #898 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,756 | 89 | #853 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,694 | 72 | #960 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,756 | 64 | #1,020 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,122 | 67 | #933 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,562 | 78 | #830 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,113 | 64 | #901 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,867 | 71 | #863 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,173 | 78 | #832 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,744 | 80 | #849 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,214 | 68 | #907 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,557 | 69 | #915 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,091 | 61 | #993 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,120 | 88 | #815 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,881 | 99 | #769 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,266 | 69 | #909 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,359 | 89 | #796 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,083 | 93 | #764 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,751 | 77 | #839 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,806 | 74 | #844 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,014 | 74 | #837 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,242 | 72 | #829 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,145 | 58 | #923 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,044 | 47 | #1,027 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,441 | 51 | #974 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,808 | 32 | #1,285 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,513 | 36 | #1,220 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,131 | 30 | #1,280 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,756 | 23 | #1,389 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,451 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,003 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,834 | 12 | #2,178 |
| 1941 | — | — | 25 | #1,341 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,510 | 30 | #1,234 |
| 1939 | — | — | 23 | #1,405 |
| 1938 | — | — | 24 | #1,374 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,849 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #1,984 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,604 |
| 1934 | — | — | 31 | #1,195 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,124 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,573 | 22 | #1,520 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,789 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,103 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,026 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,709 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,220 |
| 1926 | — | — | 18 | #1,852 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,510 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,010 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,522 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,283 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,006 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,072 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,882 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).