Donyell

given name · Latin script

Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

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Donyell is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 659 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • USUnited States1 in 505K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 740Kfew records
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

659 people, 2020

Record sources
182 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 307K (inferred from the name graph)

Liberia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Donyell 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.

Where Donyell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6591 in 505K334Donyell182
GB United Kingdom≈93 est.≈1 in 744K—Donyell7
CA Canada≈49 est.≈1 in 835K—Donyell4
PH Philippines≈41 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Donyell9
LR Liberia≈18 est.≈1 in 307K—Donyell1
NZ New Zealand≈11 est.≈1 in 461K—Donyell4

659 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. 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
  • Donyell Malenb. 1999NLDutch association football player (born 1999)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Donyell,

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)

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Donyell?
In the United States, the national register counted 659 people named Donyell in 2020, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.
Is Donyell a male or female name?
Donyell is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
Which countries have the most people named Donyell?
In the United States, the national register counted about 659 people named Donyell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donyell. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines and Liberia; the country table on this page ranks them.

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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, “Donyell” — ranked 16936th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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