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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Donyell

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

509

peak year 1974

More common than

83%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1974
32 births
Best rank
#1,552
in 1974
First recorded
1969
#4,567 that year
Last recorded
2017
no later published record
Average birth year
1986
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
39 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197432#1,552Peak
  2. 197730#1,753
  3. 199428#2,643
  4. 197627#1,842
  5. 198024#2,174

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,552 in 1974 · peak births 32 in 1974

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 56% boys■ 44% girls

509 boys · 398 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Donyell has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.