Donall
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donall has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Donall, 1957
1 in 840,000
Donall over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Donall?
Donall had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 840,000
- 5 of 4,201,368 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 431,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 582,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donall sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donalls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donall was born before 1957 — so the typical Donall is around 68 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Donall 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (5)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Donall
Donall is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 55.8% against Donall'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.
Donall around the world
Where Donall 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.
- Northern Ireland2019–2019#418in 2019
- Ireland1965–2020#741in 2020
- South Australia1980–1980#422in 1980
Popularity data from Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Donall by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Donall
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donall
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.