Donyell
About 907 American babies have been named Donyell since 1961, most of them around 1974. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2017. About 860 Donyells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Donyell
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Donyell crossed from girls to boys in 1973, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 75% boys, and in 1995 it was 68%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 907
- Estimated living today
- 860
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 1,546th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 398 / 509
How old the living Donyells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 907 babies given the name since 1961, about 860 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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 Donyells
- Donyell Malen (born 1999)Dutch association football player
People named Donyell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Donyell is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular boys’ names the year Donyell peaked:
Related names
Donyell 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.