Donnovan
#9,957 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donnovan has been given to 553 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #9,957 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Donnovan, 2025
1 in 474,000
Donnovan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Donnovan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,957
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donnovan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donnovan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donnovans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donnovan was born before 2004 — so the typical Donnovan is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 553
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (232).
Is Donnovan 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
- −3,182
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 18.9%
- Peak was 2007 (37)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Donnovan
Donnovan is not the most common spelling — Donovan is, with 84.3% against Donnovan's 0.76%.
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 Donnovan is used
Across 1910–2025, Donnovan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 686,474 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3New York1 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. Donnovan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Donnovan around the world
Where Donnovan 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.
- France1993–2016#6,059in 2016
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Donnovan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Donnovan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donnovan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.