Dornell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dornell has been given to 298 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 1960, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Dornell, 2005
1 in 769,000
Dornell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dornell?
Dornell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dornell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dornell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dornells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dornell was born before 1973 — so the typical Dornell is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 22.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 293
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (67).
Is Dornell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1960 (14)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dornell
Dornell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 56.4% against Dornell's 0.11%.
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.
Dornell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dornell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dornell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.