Donatella

#6,912 in 2025Girls' name

Given, through Donato

Donatella has been given to 372 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #6,912 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Donatella, 2025

1 in 207,000

Donatella over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donatella: meaning, origin, and history

Given, through Donato

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donatella means

Donatella belongs to the name family reached through Donatella → Donato. Its meaning is “given”.

Origin, language, and formation

Donatella is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donato.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Donatella is pronounced /do.naˈtɛl.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 372 girls were recorded with the name Donatella between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,049 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,049 in 2020 to #6,912 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,658 in 2015 to #6,912 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.

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How common is Donatella?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 207,000; 16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 100,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,912; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 143,620 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Donatella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donatella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donatellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donatella was born before 2013 — so the typical Donatella is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 89.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 372; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Donatella 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: +103; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,863; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,746; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.45×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 64.0%; Peak was 2020 (25)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,049; 2020

Spellings of Donatella

Donatella is not the most common spelling — Donella is, with 65.5% against Donatella's 13.4%.

Donella65.5%1,823
Fontella21.2%589
Donatella13.4%372

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 Donatella is used

Across 1910–2025, Donatella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,036,385 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Florida1 in —
3New Jersey1 in —
4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Donatella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donatella around the world

Where Donatella 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.

England & Wales
2005–2024
#5,892
in 2024
France
1956–2023
#7,257
in 2023
Canada
2018–2018
#3,384
in 2018
South Australia
1958–1973
#695
in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Donatella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,912
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,863
Best rank ever: #5,049; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 25 that year
First recorded: 1967
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 372
Count in 2025: 16

Names similar to Donatella

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

Sibling names for Donatella

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

For a sister

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For a brother

Kale Aaden Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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