Donnovan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Donnovan

The Social Security Administration has registered 546 babies named Donnovan between 1970 and 2019, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Donnovan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 37 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donnovan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 232 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Donnovan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Donnovan in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donnovan 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 546 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.