Donatella
Held by 1,429 people on the Argentine register, 2012 to 2024 — people born alive and holding a document, counted as the register stood, rather than births registered.
By register
By decade, every selected register together
Asked and held nothing for this name: Scotland (1974–2025), Northern Ireland (1997–2025), Ireland (1964–2025), Norway (1945–2025), Belgium (2016–2025), Switzerland (2000–2025), Poland (2000–2025), Finland (living citizens, 2026), Greenland (2002–2025). That is not a count of nought — each of those registers was searched and does not carry this spelling. Every one withholds its smallest counts, on its own rule, so a name can be real there and still absent from what they publish.
Narrow these tables
The sum at the top of each table adds counts that were not made on the same rule — the Americans publish a name only where five or more babies were given it in a year, ONS redact any name given to two or fewer in total, Finland counts living citizens rather than births. It is an indication of how widely the name is recorded, not a measurement of how many people have it.
How it is said
Not recorded. The pronouncing dictionary used here has no entry for Donatella. That does not mean the name has no settled pronunciation — it means the source is a dictionary of English words that happens to contain many names, and it is thinnest on names coined recently. Nothing is guessed here, because a guessed pronunciation of somebody's name is worse than none.
Where these numbers come from
United States, 1880 to 2025
As a girl's name, Donatella was registered 372 times in the United States between 1960 and 2025, most often in the 2010s.
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
28 babies, from a register that begins in 1996. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The registers withhold small counts on different rules — ONS redact a name given to two or fewer babies in total, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
Scotland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Scottish figures for 1974 to 2025. NRS suppress any name given to two or fewer babies in a year, so this means the name was rare there rather than unknown.
Northern Ireland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Northern Irish figures for 1997 to 2025. NISRA print every name given to a baby registered there, so an absence here means the name does not appear at all between 1997 and 2025.
Ireland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Irish figures for 1964 to 2025. The CSO list a name once it has reached three babies in any single year, so this means the name never did.
Norway
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Norwegian figures for 1945 to 2025. SSB list only names used by at least two hundred people in the previous year, so an absence here usually means the name was never that common in Norway rather than never used.
Sweden, 1998 to 2022
11 babies, from a register that begins in 1998. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: Statistics Sweden, released under CC0, which asks for no credit at all. The registers withhold small counts on different rules — SCB withhold anything under two — and under ten before 2004, which is a different bar in the same table, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
The Swedish bar moved in 2004. Until 2003 a name was published only if ten or more babies of that sex were given it; from 2004, two. A Swedish column that looks thin in its first years is showing that rule, not a name becoming popular. The series also stops: SCB ceased producing name statistics in 2024, so 2022 is the last year there will be. And what it counts is a tilltalsnamn — the given name a person actually goes by — rather than every name on the register.
France, 1900 to 2023
328 babies, from a register that begins in 1900. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: Insee. Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). The registers withhold small counts on different rules — Insee withhold the YEAR rather than the name, pooling the births of a name given to fewer than three babies of a sex in a year into one undated record, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
Belgium
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Belgian figures for 2016 to 2025. Statbel publish a figure only where at least five babies in a single municipality were given the name, so this means it never reached five in any one town — not that no Belgian child has it.
Austria, 1984 to 2025
15 babies, from a register that begins in 1984. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: Statistik Austria. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The registers withhold small counts on different rules — Statistik Austria withhold no count at all — where a name was given fewer than four times in a year they withhold the district instead, and publish the number, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
Austria is the only column on this page that is a total rather than a floor: nothing is held back except which district a birth was in. Two things do limit it. It records first names only, so a child registered Anna Maria is an Anna. And its coverage widens twice — to 2009 it counts only babies with Austrian citizenship, from 2010 every baby born in Austria, and from 2015 also babies born abroad to mothers living there — so the later decades are larger partly by rule and not only by naming.
Austrian spellings are also partly folded. Statistik Austria transcode names so that spellings alike but for their marks come together, and the only marks that survive are the six German umlauts. So an Austrian figure for an unaccented spelling covers the accented ways of writing it as well, and the figures beside it do not.
Switzerland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Swiss figures for 2000 to 2025. the Federal Statistical Office publish a fixed list of first names and do not say how a name gets onto it. So this may mean the name was never given in Switzerland, or only that it is not on that list.
Poland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Polish figures for 2000 to 2025. the Ministry left out any name given fewer than five times in a year up to 2012, and fewer than two from 2013. So an absence in the early years is a weaker statement than an absence in the later ones.
Canada, 1991 to 2024
5 babies, from a register that begins in 1991. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0147-01. Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, 1991–2024. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. The registers withhold small counts on different rules — Statistics Canada withhold any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, and publish no single-letter name — the same bar as the Americans, set by a different authority, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
Canada is usually said not to have a national name register, because births are registered province by province and most published lists are provincial top tens stitched together. Statistics Canada do assemble them: this is one table for the whole country, built from the Canadian Vital Statistics birth database together with Retraite Québec’s list of names.
Argentina, 2012 to 2024
1,429 people on the register, from a register that begins in 2012. Its decades cannot be compared with the American ones, which reach back to 1880: where the two tables above put them in the same row, they are counting different lengths of record.
Source: RENAPER, the Dirección Nacional de Población. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The registers withhold small counts on different rules — RENAPER publish no count below two, and publish no sex at all — the column here is every baby, not girls and boys apart, and the Americans hide one given to fewer than five in a year — so a name in one table and not another may only have met different thresholds.
Two things about the Argentine column are unlike every other on this page. RENAPER publish no sex: their file with a sex column holds 169 names, and the one used here holds 14,917 and does not say. Splitting a figure between girls and boys would invent the only thing it leaves out, so the column is simply everybody.
And it counts the living, not births registered. RENAPER count people nacidas vivas e identificadas
— born alive and holding a document — as the register stood in September 2024. So a 2012 figure is how many people born that year were still on the register twelve years later, not how many babies were registered then. Anyone who died, or never received a document, is not counted. Every other register on this site counts the birth itself.
One more difference, and this one is a gain: Argentina counts every given name, so a child called María Sofía is a María and a Sofía. Surnames are never counted here, in any register.
Finland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Finnish figures at all. DVV publish a name only where at least five living Finnish citizens hold it, so this means fewer than five do — not that no Finn was ever given it.
Greenland
Not in this register. Donatella does not appear in the Greenlandic figures for 2002 to 2025. Statistics Greenland suppress nothing, so — as with Austria — this means no resident of Greenland born since 2002 has the name, rather than that it was too rare to print.
The Social Security Administration publish the name on every United States birth registration from 1880 onward, and dedicate the data to the public domain under CC0. This page adds nothing to it: the counts are theirs, grouped by decade.
One gap, and it matters here more than anywhere. SSA publish a name only where five or more babies were given it in a year. A name you cannot find is not a name nobody used — it is a name used four times or fewer, and no site built on this data can see it.
Neither a meaning nor a pronunciation is recorded here for this name. Pronunciations come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which does not have every name; meanings are not on the site at all yet. Both gaps will be filled from named sources or left visible, rather than with something plausible.