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Donald

Pronounced /ˈdɒn.əld/

Rank in 2024
#672
Born in 2024
405
Peak year
1934 · #6
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 405 boys were named Donald, about 1 in every 4,235.
  • It peaked in 1934 with 30,407 babies, ranked #6.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 1,414,419 boys 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.

  1. 12.0
    Greatest
  2. 23.1
    Silent
  3. 12.9
    Boomers
  4. 5.9
    Gen X
  5. 2.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.6
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 200,237 babies, 11.98 per 1,000. Silent: 476,336 babies, 23.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 483,182 babies, 12.87 per 1,000. Gen X: 159,817 babies, 5.87 per 1,000. Millennials: 65,754 babies, 2.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19,866 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,565 babies, 0.30 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.