Donelle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Donelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,127 babies named Donelle between 1922 and 2007, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Donelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 323 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donelle performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 315 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Donelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Donelle in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donelle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,127 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.