Donnelle
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donnelle has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1983, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% girls, 43% boys all-time.
Babies named Donnelle, 1991
1 in 556,000
Donnelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Donnelle over time
In 2013, Donnelle went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Donnelle?
Donnelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 556,000
- 7 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 385,483 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donnelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 385,483 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donnelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donnelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donnelle was born before 1972 — so the typical Donnelle is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 31.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 299
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (101).
Is Donnelle 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1983 (18)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Donnelle
Donnelle is not the most common spelling — Danielle is, with 91.3% against Donnelle's 0.08%.
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.
Donnelle around the world
Where Donnelle 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.
- South Australia1966–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Donnelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Donnelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donnelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.