Meaning not yet researched.
Donnell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 1968; #4,067 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donnell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,067 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #479.
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Donnell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 290 (1982).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Donnell, making it the 4,067th most common boys’ name of the year, up 530 places from #4,597 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 22 boys named Donnell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 290, in 1982. For comparison, it was #1,878 in 2015 and #565 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donnell in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 15,305 US babies have been given the name, 6.7% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,750 babies named Donnell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 398 US boys were named Donnell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donell (5,418 babies since 1880) and Donielle (2,041 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donelle, Donyell and Donnel 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: Donelle (1,450), Donyell (907), Donnel (823), Donel (721), Donnelle (554), Doniel (416), Donyelle (393), Donyel (175), Donnielle (96), Donnal (54), Doneal (6), Doniell (5), and more.
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 Donnell 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 | — | — | 26 | #4,067 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,597 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,494 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,558 |
| 2021 | — | — | 29 | #3,759 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,700 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,371 |
| 2018 | — | — | 60 | #2,272 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,499 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,944 |
| 2015 | — | — | 78 | #1,878 |
| 2014 | — | — | 89 | #1,703 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,769 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,715 |
| 2011 | — | — | 75 | #1,875 |
| 2010 | — | — | 105 | #1,538 |
| 2009 | — | — | 79 | #1,855 |
| 2008 | — | — | 125 | #1,366 |
| 2007 | — | — | 135 | #1,291 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,900 | 139 | #1,205 |
| 2005 | — | — | 110 | #1,366 |
| 2004 | — | — | 134 | #1,166 |
| 2003 | — | — | 107 | #1,306 |
| 2002 | — | — | 123 | #1,156 |
| 2001 | — | — | 155 | #988 |
| 2000 | — | — | 149 | #994 |
| 1999 | — | — | 135 | #1,028 |
| 1998 | — | — | 131 | #1,033 |
| 1997 | — | — | 159 | #874 |
| 1996 | — | — | 165 | #848 |
| 1995 | — | — | 171 | #821 |
| 1994 | — | — | 197 | #746 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,107 | 195 | #749 |
| 1992 | — | — | 203 | #726 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,769 | 207 | #704 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,526 | 239 | #653 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,220 | 249 | #633 |
| 1988 | — | — | 239 | #614 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,039 | 220 | #611 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,285 | 206 | #623 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,762 | 217 | #593 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,041 | 259 | #534 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,220 | 218 | #572 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,770 | 290 | #498 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,195 | 260 | #523 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,794 | 271 | #517 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,086 | 249 | #539 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,814 | 205 | #588 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,404 | 227 | #552 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,413 | 254 | #505 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,897 | 269 | #488 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,344 | 265 | #494 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,418 | 256 | #486 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,469 | 238 | #508 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,303 | 268 | #492 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,210 | 271 | #492 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,737 | 254 | #482 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,262 | 248 | #479 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,652 | 243 | #482 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,536 | 220 | #510 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,693 | 214 | #524 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,115 | 240 | #506 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,071 | 214 | #540 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,478 | 263 | #488 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,930 | 205 | #552 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,324 | 225 | #527 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,532 | 209 | #541 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,032 | 217 | #523 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,180 | 195 | #554 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,747 | 205 | #523 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,171 | 171 | #564 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,394 | 150 | #604 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,719 | 162 | #556 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,214 | 150 | #571 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,123 | 134 | #602 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,276 | 143 | #565 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,442 | 90 | #723 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,275 | 85 | #730 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,103 | 76 | #790 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,275 | 62 | #840 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,780 | 50 | #904 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,786 | 50 | #899 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,306 | 41 | #1,062 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,241 | 55 | #890 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,076 | 56 | #848 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,977 | 42 | #997 |
| 1939 | — | — | 36 | #1,071 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,485 | 34 | #1,114 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,907 | 37 | #1,059 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,924 | 40 | #994 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,865 | 38 | #1,044 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,434 | 39 | #1,042 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,501 | 23 | #1,416 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,575 | 36 | #1,128 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,037 | 36 | #1,135 |
| 1930 | — | — | 41 | #1,083 |
| 1929 | — | — | 30 | #1,300 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,890 | 32 | #1,276 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,992 | 24 | #1,569 |
| 1926 | — | — | 32 | #1,283 |
| 1925 | — | — | 22 | #1,642 |
| 1924 | — | — | 22 | #1,689 |
| 1923 | — | — | 23 | #1,611 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #1,972 |
| 1921 | — | — | 27 | #1,459 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,159 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,084 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,092 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,543 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,256 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,897 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,003 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,838 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,094 |
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).