girls:
47 births since 1960
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
776 births since 1922
#3811 (17th percentile)
overall:
823 births since 1922
#6916 (11th percentile)
The name Donnel is the #6,916 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 823 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 10.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,811 (16.8% percentile) for all time with 776 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1960.
Donnel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1960 for girls). Birth data for Donnel is available in 79 out of the 96 years between 1922 and 2017 (79 years for boys and 8 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 Donnel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donnel reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #666) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Donnel reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #767) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donnel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Donnel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Donnel is pronounced as DAH-nuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DUH-nuhl, at 17.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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