Donelle

Where Donelle comes from

Donelle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #4,011 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Peak, #1,909
    39 babies named Donelle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,167.
  4. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Donelle hasn't yet.

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.