Donzel
Donzel was last recorded in 2017, when 8 babies were given it; 246 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donzel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donzel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,060, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1992, the peak
Donzel peaked in 1992, when 18 boys were given it, #3,487 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | #9,060 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,085 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,387 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,991 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,203 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,863 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,388 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,400 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,143 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,420 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9 | #6,222 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,228 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,550 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,185 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,882 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,487 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,290 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,825 | 7.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,595 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,485 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,301 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,117 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,287 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,545 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,825 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,161 | 3.8 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,953 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,812 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,783 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,908 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,231 | 7.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,507 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,467 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donzel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donzel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donzel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donzel, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Donzel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Donzel (20 women and girls, 237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 Donzel?
Donzel is a less common spelling of Donzell: SSA has recorded 246 Donzel and 1,073 Donzell since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,319 babies since 1880, Donzel is the second most given (19% 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.
More about Donzel and names like it
- Compare Donzel and DonzellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonzel peaked in 1992.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donzel since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Donzel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Donzel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.