Donielle
Feminine · “God is my judge”
Donielle is given to both — 1,950 girls and 91 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
This is Danielle with the vowel of Donna in the front. Neither name is being respelled exactly; the two have been run together, taking the opening of one and the body of the other, which is how a great many American names of the period were made.
How old is the name Donielle?
Donielle first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Donielle alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 1,900 people named Donielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Donielle most popular?
Donielle peaked in 1984, reaching #1414 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Daniel to Donielle
The story of Donielle
The book the stem name belongs to invented a way of writing. Its later chapters are the earliest full example of apocalyptic literature: visions of beasts and horns and thrones, a coded account of contemporary politics disguised as a prophecy about the distant past, and an interpreting angel explaining it to a bewildered narrator. Everything in that mode afterwards — including the last book of the New Testament and a considerable amount of medieval and modern religious writing — is following the template laid down here. It is one of the few genres whose first instance can be pointed at.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is my judge
If the source is Danielle the Hebrew sense passes through unchanged. If the front is genuinely Donna, an Italian common noun has been spliced onto a Hebrew name and the compound means nothing coherent.
How the name formed
- Daniel
- Danielle
- Donielle
Pronouncing Donielle
doh-nee-ELL
Three syllables with the weight at the back, as the French ending requires. The opening is unstressed and reduces.
Nicknames for Donielle
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 198482 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1414reached in 1984
- Change vs 2011
- +20.0%6 in 2012, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Donielles among us
people named Donielle are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Donielle sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The stress at the back gives it a decisive finish.
- Elle and Doni both sit inside it as short forms with different registers.
- The spelling follows the sound with nothing to explain.
- Danielle is far commoner and this gets corrected constantly.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Donielles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Donielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Donielle in 2025?
- Donielle is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Donielle with classmates?
- Donielle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
Dorothy#421 · Donna#1962 · Deborah#862 · Debra#4460 · Diane#2607 · Doris#2895 · Denise#1673 · Danielle#549
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