How Many People Are Named Donal?
people named Donal are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 214,959 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,712 babies named Donal in Social Security records from 1909 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
98 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Modern Irish form of Domhnall (see DONALD).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Donal (99.7%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Donal alive today is about 58 years old, and 54% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 44 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Donal first appears in the records in 1909 and was given most often in 1930, to 98 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1909 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Donal has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #597, in 1931.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #597 (1931) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #678 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Donal alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Donal were born in California than in any other state: about 74 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Donal was given 7.2 times as often in Oklahoma, 4.8 times in West Virginia and 3.9 times in Texas.
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