girls:
5 births since 1968
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1909
#2037 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1909
#4503 (42nd percentile)
The name Donal is the #4,503 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,712 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 41.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,037 (55.6% percentile) for all time with 3,707 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1968.
Donal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Donal is available in 108 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Donal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donal reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 17.7% percentile (ranked #428) with 91 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 91 births per million (ranked 17.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donal ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donal reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #747) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donal".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Donal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Donal is pronounced as DOH-nuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-nuhl, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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