Donelle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The feminine form of Donal
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dənɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Donelle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 255K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 38K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 103K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,304 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The feminine form of Donal. Donleavy [Donn Siéibhe] (m) ‘brown of the hill’. A once-popular name, from which the surnames Donleavy and Dunlop sprang. It was also used in Scotland, where the strange form Downsleif is recorded.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Donelle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,304 | 1 in 255K | 1K | Donelle | 242 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 1 | Donelle | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Donelle | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 384K | — | Donelle | 43 |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 721K | — | Donelle | 15 |
| JO Jordan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Donelle | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Donelle | 30 |
| GY Guyana | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | — | 1 |
| GA Gabon | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | 1 |
1,304 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Donelle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Feminine form of Donal.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #10,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 271 | #10,291 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 42 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 30 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Donelle come from?
- The feminine form of Donal. Donleavy [Donn Siéibhe] (m) ‘brown of the hill’. A once-popular name, from which the surnames Donleavy and Dunlop sprang. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Donelle?
- A machine transcription gives /dənɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Donelle mean?
- Recorded meaning: The feminine form of Donal.
- Is Donelle a male or female name?
- Donelle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Donelle?
- In the etymology graph, Donella, Donalda and Donaldina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Donelle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Donelle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donelle.
- Where is Donelle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Donelle is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Donelle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,304 people named Donelle in 2020, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donelleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Donelle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.