Donald

Donald is the 2,905th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,088 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,088
Rank: 2,905th
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Donald described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 49.1%
Black, not Hispanic 42.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Donald

Howard Donald (born 1968)British singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, DJ and producer
Mitchell Donald (born 1988)Surinamese association football player
Luke Donald (born 1977)English professional golfer
Juliana Donald (born 1964)American actress
James Donald (1917–1993)British actor
Athene Donald (born 1953)British physicist
Aaron Donald (born 1991)American football player
Stephen Donald (born 1983)New Zealand rugby union player

People named Donald with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Donald

Also a first name

Donald has been given to 1,420,387 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1934. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.