Donald
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Donald
Donald has been used for centuries in Scotland, where the Macdonald clan is one of the most ancient and where there have been six early Scottish kings by that name. Donald was a Top 20 name throughout most of the early twentieth century.
Donald for boys#690 US
But first there was the quacking Donald Duck, introduced in 1934, to affect its image, and then there was The Donald Trump, leaving it drained of much baby appeal. Trump's runs to presidency didn't save Donald's decline on the baby name charts: over the last decade it has fallen around 200 places in the US, and a recent year saw it rank at #672 when it was given to around 400 boys.
Across the pond, it is now out of favor in Scotland too and the latest count revealed just 16 boys were called Donald in England and Wales. Nicknames Donnie and Donny preferred, given to around 60 boys collectively, with the -ie spelling in the Top 1000, distant enough from the Trump association to work there.
Aside from Donald Sutherland, most contemporary real and fictive Donalds go by nicknames — as in Donny Osmond, Donnie Wahlberg, Don Rickles and Don Draper. More promising and more authentically Celtic sounding is Donal, which is quite commonly used in Ireland, or surname cousins Donnelly or Donovan.
Donald for girls
You may be surprised to learn that Donald featured in the US Top 1000 in the 20s and 30s, peaking in 1930 when it was given to 175 girls (compared to 29051 boys). A strong Scottish choice meaning "proud chief", it last appeared in the US stats for girls in 2004.
Pronounced DON-uld.
As of October 2026, Donald ranked #690 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #6 in 1934, Nameberry popularity #966.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #419 | 738 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #440 | 696 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #489 | 625 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #486 | 603 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #524 | 541 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #548 | 513 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #610 | 449 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #595 | 468 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #679 | 402 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #658 | 415 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #672 | 405 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #690 | 395 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Donald for boys
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Donald on lists
Famous Donalds
- Donald IBoy
III, Kings of Scots
- Donald Henry RumsfeldBoy
13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Donald Franciszek TuskBoy
former Prime Minister of Poland; President of the European Council
- Donald Adeosun FaisonBoy
American actor
- Donald McNichol SutherlandBoy
American actor; father of actor Keifer Sutherland
- Donald Henry PleasenceBoy
English actor
- Donald Edmond "Donnie" WahlbergBoy
American actor
- Isaac Donald "Don" EverlyBoy
American singer,songwriter of The Everly Brothers
- Donald DriverBoy
American NFL football player
- Donald Mckinley GloverBoy
American actor
- Donald "Duck" DunnBoy
American bass guitarist
- Donald Frank "Don" CheadleBoy
American actor
- Donald Eugene "Don" GibsonBoy
American country music songwriter
- Donald CargillBoy
Scottish Covenanter preacher
- Donald A. GlaserBoy
winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Donald J. CramBoy
winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Donald Marland HewlettBoy
English actor
- Donald HawkinsBoy
American NFL football player
- Donald George BradmanBoy
Australian cricketer
- Donald James YarmyBoy
birth name of Don Adams, American actor
- Donald Tai Loy "Don" HoBoy
American pop singer
- Donald Clark "Don" KirshnerBoy
American music publisher and producer
- Donald Virgil "Don" BluthBoy
American animator and director
- Donald Orlando "Duck" BaileyBoy
American jazz drummer
- Donald Maynard BrashearBoy
American,Canadian ice hockey player
- Donald Zackary "Zack" GreinkeBoy
American baseball pitcher
- Donald Cortez "Don" CorneliusBoy
American TV host
- George William "Donald" CrispBoy
Anglo,American actor
- Donald Campbell DewarBoy
1st Minister of Scotland
- Donald Allan "Don" DunstanBoy
35th Premier of South Australia
- Donald Clark "Donny" OsmondBoy
American singer and actor
- Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture "Donald" ByrdBoy
American jazz and R&B trumpeter
- Donald Tsang (YamBoy
kuen), 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
- Donald John TrumpBoy
45th U.S. president
- Donald SterlingBoy
American businessman, and former basketball team owner
- Donald James Matthew BlakesleeBoy
American WWII flying ace
- Donald Ervin KnuthBoy
American computer scientist
- Donald John Trump JrBoy
son of President Donald Trump
- Kriss Donald (b. 1988)Boy
15 year old white Scottish boy who was kidnapped and murdered because he was white in 2004
Donald in pop culture
- Donald DuckBoy
Disney character
- Donald "Don" DraperBoy
main character on TV's "Mad Men"
- Donald "Dock" O'KellyBoy
also known as Father Daniel Flynn, character in film "Bad Times at the El Royale"
- Detective Donald "Don" Flack Jr.Boy
character on TV's "CSI: New York"
- Donald "Ducky" MallardBoy
character on TV's "NCIS"
- Donald Ronald "Donny" DouglasBoy
character on TV's "Frasier"
- DonaldBoy
Capuchin monkey in movie "Zookeeper"
- Donald "Donnie" StevensBoy
character on TV's "Even Stevens"
- Donald "Don" EppesBoy
main character on TV's "Numb3rs"
- Donald ResslerBoy
character on TV's "The Blacklist"
- McDonald'sBoy
restaurant chain
- Donald DavenportBoy
character on TV's "Lab Rats"
- Donald PierceBoy
character in "X,Men"
- DonaldBoy
one of the main four characters from Platoon of Power Squadron
- Donald Leslie "Don" OrvilleBoy
Police officer on TV show "3rd Rock from the Sun"
- Captain Donald "Don" CragenBoy
character on TV shows "Law and Order" and "Law and Order: SVU"