Donnella
Donnella was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 344 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,985, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1970, the peak
Donnella peaked in 1970, when 18 girls were given it, #3,465 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #13,985 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,370 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,187 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,722 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,197 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,419 | 2.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,617 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,652 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,051 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,695 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,368 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,951 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,421 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,758 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,886 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,465 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,019 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,570 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,052 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,268 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,434 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,563 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,460 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,618 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,440 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,731 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,594 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,581 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,781 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,319 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,611 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,549 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,746 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,879 | 7.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,134 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,895 | 5.0 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,073 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,405 | 4.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,854 | 6.0 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,312 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnella, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Donnella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 51 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 348 people named Donnella (346 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Donnella?
Donnella is a less common spelling of Donella: SSA has recorded 344 Donnella and 1,823 Donella since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,701 babies since 1880, Donnella is the sixth most given (5.1% of them).
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 Donnella
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 Donnella and names like it
- Compare Donnella and DonellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDonnella peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Donnella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donnella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.