Doniel
Doniel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,525 among boys’ names; 416 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doniel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doniel?
#12,525 among boys’ names, 2025
Doniel rose from #12,557 in 2015 to #12,525 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
17 babies in 1973, the peak
Doniel peaked in 1973, when 17 babies were given it (10 boys, #3,274 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,525 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,801 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,995 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,539 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,126 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,784 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,707 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,557 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,987 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,097 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #9,901 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,103 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,146 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,855 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,533 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,186 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,349 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,185 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,591 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,976 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,343 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,045 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,372 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,381 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,226 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,515 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,021 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,765 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,704 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,487 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,280 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,322 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,656 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,136 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,299 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,581 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,461 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,755 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,244 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,233 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,216 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,248 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,277 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,326 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,048 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,637 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,274 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,100 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,853 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,123 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,070 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,448 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,741 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,141 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,522 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doniel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 416 Americans recorded as Doniel, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Doniel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doniel, and how old are they?
An estimated 390 Americans named Doniel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Doniel (57 women and girls, 346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 377 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,356 babies since 1880, Doniel is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 44 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Doniel
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 Doniel and names like it
- Compare Doniel and DonnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDoniel peaked in 1973.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Doniel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Doniel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.