Donald

Where Donald comes from

Name of Scottish kings and an early saint, from Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall and reinforced by Medieval Latin Donvaldus ~ Donaldus, from Old Irish Domnall, from Proto-Celtic *Dubnowalos (“prince / chief of the world”). Doublet of Domhnall.
— Wiktionary's entry for Donald
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #244 among boys — 46 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #6
    30,408 babies named Donald — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1946
    Donald Trump born
    President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
  4. 1957
    Donald Tusk born
    Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023)
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #27.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes
  • Donald Trump · President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025), born 1946
  • Donald Tusk · Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023), born 1957
  • Donald Sutherland · Canadian actor, 1935–2024
  • Donald Knuth · American computer scientist and mathematician, born 1938
  • Donald Rumsfeld · American politician and diplomat, 1932–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.