girls:
591 births since 1932
#5125 (10th percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1915
#1732 (62nd percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1915
#3717 (52nd percentile)
The name Donell is the #3,717 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,397 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 52.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,732 (62.2% percentile) for all time with 4,806 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,125 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 591 births since 1932.
Donell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1932 for girls). Birth data for Donell is available in 106 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (106 years for boys and 46 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 Donell has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Donell were boys.
For boys, Donell reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #562) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 55 births per million (ranked 13.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donell ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 11.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donell reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #728) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Donell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.5% confident that Donell is pronounced as duh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is doh-NEHL, at 35.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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