Donal
Donal was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 3,712 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Donal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 44 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,703, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
98 babies in 1930, the peak
Donal peaked in 1930, when 98 boys were given it, #621 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,703 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,631 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,538 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,376 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,128 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,705 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,817 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,560 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,197 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,763 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,145 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,295 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,923 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,322 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,185 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,396 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,666 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,059 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,013 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,752 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,463 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,507 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,058 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,223 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,985 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,866 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,764 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,361 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,492 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,494 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,455 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,655 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,540 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,456 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,556 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,433 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,340 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,081 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,755 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,959 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,981 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,251 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,191 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,230 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,006 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,630 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,833 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,536 | 18.1 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,758 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,741 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 33 | #1,346 | 19.0 |
| 1967 | 31 | #1,371 | 17.8 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,311 | 19.1 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,227 | 21.0 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,443 | 15.1 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,011 | 27.6 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,215 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,158 | 21.7 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,155 | 21.6 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,086 | 23.9 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,189 | 19.8 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,136 | 21.3 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,046 | 24.6 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,116 | 21.4 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,123 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,091 | 22.8 |
| 1952 | 53 | #983 | 27.3 |
| 1951 | 50 | #995 | 26.6 |
| 1950 | 43 | #1,076 | 24.0 |
| 1949 | 60 | #888 | 33.8 |
| 1948 | 52 | #966 | 29.6 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,014 | 27.3 |
| 1946 | 48 | #970 | 29.6 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,008 | 29.7 |
| 1944 | 45 | #965 | 33.0 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,091 | 27.3 |
| 1942 | 56 | #883 | 40.5 |
| 1941 | 61 | #807 | 49.7 |
| 1940 | 52 | #874 | 44.9 |
| 1939 | 60 | #786 | 54.2 |
| 1938 | 63 | #770 | 56.8 |
| 1937 | 68 | #738 | 63.8 |
| 1936 | 82 | #638 | 79.1 |
| 1935 | 83 | #654 | 79.7 |
| 1934 | 80 | #678 | 77.5 |
| 1933 | 78 | #664 | 78.7 |
| 1932 | 88 | #644 | 84.3 |
| 1931 | 97 | #597 | 93.3 |
| 1930 | 98 | #621 | 89.3 |
| 1929 | 80 | #689 | 74.4 |
| 1928 | 87 | #676 | 78.5 |
| 1927 | 83 | #713 | 73.7 |
| 1926 | 58 | #879 | 52.2 |
| 1925 | 70 | #787 | 62.7 |
| 1924 | 78 | #753 | 68.9 |
| 1923 | 84 | #708 | 76.6 |
| 1922 | 89 | #692 | 81.8 |
| 1921 | 67 | #845 | 60.8 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,163 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,213 | 34.7 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,728 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,492 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,559 | 23.6 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,425 | 27.1 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,403 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,513 | 25.4 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,655 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,509 | 30.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donal has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Donal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donal, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 42% of the 3,712 Americans ever recorded as Donal. The median Donal alive today is 62 years old; half are between 44 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,507 people named Donal (54 women and girls, 2,453 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,844 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Donal rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 588 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 354 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 232 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 127 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 47 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Donal born?
The states with the most babies named Donal are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 209 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 143 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 132 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| West Virginia | 72 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arkansas | 54 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Donal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donal is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Donal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,144 babies since 1880, Donal is the second most given (33% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Donal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Donal and names like it
- Compare Donal and DonellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDonal peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donal since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Donal.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donal alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.