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Donald

Pronounced /ˈdɒn.əld/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1930 · #506
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Also recorded for boys:405 in 2024 (#672)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Donald in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1930 with 175 babies, ranked #506.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1890.
  • 5,561 girls have been named Donald since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Donald per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 876 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 1,885 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,386 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,004 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 388 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 17 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Name of Scottish kings and an early saint, from Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall and reinforced by Medieval Latin Donvaldus ~ Donaldus, from Old Irish Domnall, from Proto-Celtic *Dubnowalos (“prince / chief of the world”). Doublet of Domhnall.

  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Say it
/ˈdɒn.əld/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Donald, CC BY-SA 4.0.