Donnel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Donnel

The Social Security Administration has registered 776 babies named Donnel between 1922 and 2017, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Donnel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Donnel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 1960.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donnel performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Donnel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Donnel in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donnel 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 776 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.