Donyale — unisex name

What the Data Says About Donyale

The Social Security Administration has registered 354 babies named Donyale between 1966 and 2004, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donyale currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Donyale is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 79 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donyale performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Donyale shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Donyale in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donyale 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 354 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.