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How popular is “Donelle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Donelle” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Donelle” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Donelle” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Donelle” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Donelle” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Donelle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Donelle” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1922 7 0.000003058 7 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 28 0.000006939 28 100%
1963 19 0.0000048 19 100%
1964 28 0.000007202 28 100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 100%
1966 21 0.000006042 21 100%
1967 41 0.000012077 36 5 76%
1968 39 0.000011544 39 100%
1969 36 0.000010359 30 6 67%
1970 42 0.000011646 42 100%
1971 41 0.000011945 32 9 56%
1972 31 0.000009863 31 100%
1973 46 0.000015248 40 6 74%
1974 35 0.000011513 30 5 71%
1975 38 0.000012585 31 7 63%
1976 39 0.000012853 34 5 74%
1977 33 0.000010389 27 6 64%
1978 32 0.000010082 20 12 25%
1979 48 0.000014427 28 20 17%
1980 34 0.000009871 22 12 29%
1981 45 0.000013008 29 16 29%
1982 30 0.000008552 18 12 20%
1983 26 0.000007507 15 11 15%
1984 36 0.000010319 22 14 22%
1985 30 0.000008405 21 9 40%
1986 34 0.000009558 22 12 29%
1987 25 0.000006934 19 6 52%
1988 41 0.000011096 31 10 51%
1989 32 0.000008324 16 16 0%
1990 31 0.000007843 16 15 3%
1991 19 0.000004878 8 11 -16%
1992 20 0.000005207 12 8 20%
1993 17 0.000004509 9 8 6%
1995 15 0.000004096 9 6 20%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 19 0.000005166 13 6 37%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 12 0.000003175 5 7 -17%
2002 11 0.000002943 5 6 -9%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 -100%
2007 16 0.000004002 7 9 -13%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%

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