Donnelle
Donnelle was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 554 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,574, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1983, the peak
Donnelle peaked in 1983, when 26 babies were given it (18 girls, #4,156 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,098 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #12,786 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,767 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,204 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,042 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #9,839 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,047 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,501 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,203 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 7 | #7,168 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,339 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,574 | 9 | #5,628 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,802 | 7 | #6,602 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,780 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,605 | 11 | #4,242 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,035 | 10 | #4,331 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,420 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,115 | 7 | #5,300 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,577 | 13 | #3,322 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,156 | 8 | #4,617 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,469 | 6 | #5,843 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,350 | 12 | #3,471 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,934 | 7 | #5,081 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,296 | 13 | #3,217 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,000 | 7 | #4,668 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,988 | 5 | #6,108 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,311 | 6 | #5,105 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,093 | 7 | #4,454 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,392 | 6 | #4,782 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,226 | 7 | #4,191 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,359 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,214 | 9 | #3,435 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,296 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,769 | 6 | #4,072 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,788 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,101 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,438 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,946 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,026 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,630 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,637 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,627 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,732 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,587 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,030 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,459 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,298 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,810 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,296 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,890 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Donnelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 554 Americans recorded as Donnelle, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donnelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Donnelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 554 people named Donnelle (351 women and girls, 203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 7,667 babies since 1880, Donnelle is the fifth most given (7.2% 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 Donnelle
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 Donnelle and names like it
- Compare Donnelle and DonielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDonnelle peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Donnelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donnelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.