Donzell
Donzell was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,009 among boys’ names; 1,073 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donzell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donzell?
#11,009 among boys’ names, 2025
Donzell fell from #9,821 in 2015 to #11,009 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 3.5 per million.
46 babies in 1990, the peak
Donzell peaked in 1990, when 46 boys were given it, #1,732 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,009 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,635 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,968 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,012 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,326 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,716 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,821 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,912 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,001 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,764 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | #6,690 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,442 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,375 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,440 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,362 | 4.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,255 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,846 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,046 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,819 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,597 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,954 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,109 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,886 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,631 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,676 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,335 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,135 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,593 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,687 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,151 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,732 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,005 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,993 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,035 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,813 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,649 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,516 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,289 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,621 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,922 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,756 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,612 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,674 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,677 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,359 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,309 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,943 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,891 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,266 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,305 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,653 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,916 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,226 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,171 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,831 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,007 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,361 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,570 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,113 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,950 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,576 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,052 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,118 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,115 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,535 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,163 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,495 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,313 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,098 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,899 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,239 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,413 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,838 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,927 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,970 | 4.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,552 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,941 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,618 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,696 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,678 | 4.8 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,508 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donzell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,073 Americans recorded as Donzell, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donzell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donzell, and how old are they?
An estimated 911 Americans named Donzell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 29 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 689 people named Donzell (46 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 933 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,319 babies since 1880, Donzell is the most given (81% 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 Donzell
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 Donzell and names like it
- Compare Donzell and DonzelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonzell peaked in 1990.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donzell since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Donzell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Donzell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.