Donell
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 15 babies a year in the US.
Donell by the numbers
Donell was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 98 babies in 1959, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Donell
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Donell. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Donell
Names that are said the same way as Donell, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Donell
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