Donatello
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: Donatello (Italian artist)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/donatɛllo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Donatello is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 182K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 785K
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
56 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Donatello (Italian artist)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Donatello is read(measured from records)
Donatello is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian47%
Donatello (Italian artist)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Donato com sufixo singular -ello
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- English19%
Donate, Italian sculptor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
An Italian Renaissance painter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Donatello in Spanish.
- French6.1%
It. diminutive of Donato, from Lat. donatus, « donné ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Donatello, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Donatello 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.
56 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Donatello 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 Croatian, talijanski kipar, jedan od najvećih renesansnih umjetnika, začetnik monumentalne skulpture (brončani David )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Donatellob. 1386FREarly Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
- Donatello Gabbriellib. 1884ITItalian sculptor
- Donatello D'Oraziob. 1896ITItalian journalist and writer (1896-1986)
- Donatello Stefanuccib. 1896ITItalian painter (1896-1987)
- Donatello Lositob. 1940DEGerman painter (1940-2008)
- Donatello Bellomob. 1953ITItalian writer
- Donatello Alunni Pieruccib. 1954ITItalian film director
- Donatello Dubinib. 1955CHSwiss film director (1955-2011)
- Donatello Cimadomob. 1970ITItalian jurist
- Donatello Conteb. 1976ITItalian computer engineer
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)
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 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #95,634 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #17,778 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Donatello?
- In the etymology graph, Donatus, Donatas and Donát are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Donatello a male or female name?
- Donatello is a male 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 does the name Donatello mean, and where does it come from?
- Donatello (Italian artist) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Donatello?
- A machine transcription gives /donatɛllo/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Donatello have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 56 people named Donatello, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Donatello most common?
- Donatello is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 182 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Donatello?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 56 people named Donatello, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Donatello?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donatelloThe 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, “Donatello”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.