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Donatello

#4,579 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Donato

Donatello has been given to 492 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,579 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Donatello, 2025

1 in 151,000

Donatello over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donatello: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Donato

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donatello means

Donatello is a diminutive of Donato.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Donatello is a diminutive of Donato. Donato has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Donatello is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donato.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Donatello is pronounced /do.naˈtɛl.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 492 boys were recorded with the name Donatello between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,760 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,170 in 2020 to #4,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,454 in 2015 to #4,579 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 Donatello?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,579
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donatello 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donatello. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donatellos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donatello was born before 2019 — so the typical Donatello is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
492
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Choose a decade

2010s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Donatello 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
−1,571
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−409
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,125
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.8%
Peak was 2022 (47)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,760
2022

Where Donatello is used

Across 1910–2025, Donatello was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 373,708 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Donatello has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donatello around the world

Where Donatello 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    2007–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Donatello by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 409
Best rank ever
#2,760
2022
Peak year
2022
47 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
492
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Donatello

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

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Sibling names for Donatello

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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