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Donzell

About 1,073 American babies have been named Donzell since 1919, most of them around 1990. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 920 Donzells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Donzell boys named Donzell

By the numbers

Total US births
1,073
Estimated living today
920
Median age today
39
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,730th
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1919
Girls / boys
23 / 1,050

How old the living Donzells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,073 babies given the name since 1919, about 920 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 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.

Where Donzell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Donzell is most concentrated in Illinois (11.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Donzell peaked:

All the names of 1990

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Donzell 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.