Donzell
Donzell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199046 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1924
- 1,067people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,044 boys have been named Donzell in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1990s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 23 girls have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Donzell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 19 | |
| 1940s | 40 | |
| 1950s | 128 | |
| 1960s | 118 | |
| 1970s | 169 | |
| 1980s | 149 | |
| 1990s | 233 | |
| 2000s | 94 | |
| 2010s | 78 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Donzell was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Donzell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karltonpeak 1991
- Martinezpeak 1990
- Arnoldopeak 1992
- Parrispeak 1993
- Lamontepeak 1971
- Norbertopeak 1981
- Terrancepeak 1988
- Darnellpeak 1984
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.