girls:
23 births since 1919
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1924
#3552 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1919
#6673 (14th percentile)
The name Donzell is the #6,673 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,066 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 13.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,552 (22.5% percentile) for all time with 1,043 births since 1924. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1919.
Donzell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 1924 for boys). Birth data for Donzell is available in 83 out of the 103 years between 1919 and 2021 (80 years for boys and 4 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 Donzell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1925, the name was more popular for girls (78.3% girls from 1919 to 1924), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (99.5% boys from 1925 to 2021).
For boys, Donzell reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #728) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 21 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Donzell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #605) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donzell".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Donzell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.8% confident that Donzell is pronounced as dahn-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-zehl, at 28.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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