Donnald
Donnald was last recorded in 1981, when 7 babies were given it; 386 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnald by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnald?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,082, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1954, the peak
Donnald peaked in 1954, when 20 boys were given it, #1,716 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #5,082 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,651 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,583 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,201 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,594 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,071 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,608 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,829 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,362 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #3,725 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,721 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,555 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,349 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,459 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,139 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,545 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,298 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,771 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,860 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,716 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,916 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,097 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,924 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,129 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,253 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,656 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,160 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,058 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,440 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,909 | 10.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,569 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,217 | 5.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,677 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,582 | 8.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,050 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnald has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnald: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnald, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Donnald and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Donnald (0 women and girls, 256 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 283 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Donnald?
Donnald is a less common spelling of Donald: SSA has recorded 386 Donnald and 1,420,387 Donald since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,421,601 babies since 1880, Donnald is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 395 babies recorded by SSA was a Donnald (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Donnald
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 Donnald and names like it
- Compare Donnald and DonaldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonnald peaked in 1954.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnald since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Donnald.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donnald alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.