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Donaldo

#9,125 in 2025Boys' name

Prince / chief of the world, through Donald

Donaldo has been given to 347 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #9,125 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Donaldo, 2025

1 in 414,000

Donaldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Prince / chief of the world, through Donald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donaldo means

Donaldo belongs to the name family reached through Donaldo → Donald. Its meaning is “prince / chief of the world”.

Origin, language, and formation

Donaldo is used in Albanian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donald.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Donaldo is pronounced /doˈnaldo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 347 boys were recorded with the name Donaldo between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,134 in 1994.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,818 in 2015 to #9,125 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Donaldo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,125
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donaldo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donaldo was born before 2002 — so the typical Donaldo is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
347
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2000s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Donaldo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,189
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+693
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.4%
Peak was 1994 (22)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,134
1994

Spellings of Donaldo

Donaldo is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 56.2% against Donaldo's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Donaldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Donaldo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 852,671 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Donaldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donaldo around the world

Where Donaldo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1979–1979
    #2,400
    in 1979

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Donaldo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,125
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,134
1994
Peak year
1994
22 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
347
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Donaldo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DontrelDonavynDonyaeDonovinDonielDonzellDontreDonnovanDonivanDonavenDonelleDonnaldDontrayDonovenDontayeDontaiDonovynRivaldoDonyellDontezDontellDonatelloDonovonDonavin

Sibling names for Donaldo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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