Donal
About 3,712 American babies have been named Donal since 1909, most of them around 1930. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,600 Donals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Donal boys named Donal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,712
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 621st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 3,707
How old the living Donals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,712 babies given the name since 1909, about 1,600 are alive — 43 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 690 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Donals
- Donal Logue (born 1966)Canadian actor
- Dónal Lunny (born 1947)Irish musician and record producer
- Donal Gibson (born 1958)American actor
- Donal Bisht (born 1994)actor
People named Donal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Donal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Donal is most concentrated in Oklahoma (10.0×), West Virginia (8.0×), Arkansas (5.2×), Texas (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular boys’ names the year Donal peaked:
Donal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Donal +1 spelling | 5,552 | 48th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Donal | 272 | 117th |
| England and Wales boys | Donal | 69 | 1,962nd |
| Scotland boys | Donal | 7 | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Donal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.