Donnell — #4572 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Donnell

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,253 babies named Donnell between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Donnell currently holds the #4572 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 290 babies received it in a single year. Donnell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,026 additional births since 1927.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donnell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Donnell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,145 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Donnell in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donnell 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 14,253 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.