Donyale
Donyale was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 433 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donyale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donyale?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,853, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1969, the peak
Donyale peaked in 1969, when 50 babies were given it (45 girls, #1,844 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #16,853 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,830 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,303 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,889 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,576 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,725 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,808 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,853 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,931 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,586 | 8 | #4,633 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 8 | #7,599 | 7 | #5,084 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,618 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,116 | 11 | #3,459 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,751 | 7 | #4,728 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,499 | 7 | #4,556 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,661 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,524 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,273 | 7 | #4,194 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,594 | 7 | #4,101 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,682 | 6 | #4,542 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,130 | 9 | #3,349 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,844 | 5 | #4,565 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,030 | 5 | #4,286 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,762 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,293 | 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 Donyale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 433 Americans recorded as Donyale, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donyale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donyale, and how old are they?
An estimated 400 Americans named Donyale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 48 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 434 people named Donyale (331 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 409 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,648 babies since 1880, Donyale is the third most given (12% 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 Donyale
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 Donyale and names like it
- Compare Donyale and DonelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDonyale peaked in 1969.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donyale since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Donyale.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donyale alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.