Given name & surname

Donaldo

Donaldo is a masculine given name from English. It is used in Spanish and Albanian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Donaldo comes from English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From English Donald.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Donaldo through the years

Babies since 1880
347
347 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1994
22 babies
2025
8
#9,129 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+100%
Rising fast
0510151960198020002025Highest share 19944.7
Donaldo in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1959–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,129 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,161 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Donaldo’s family of names

In Spanish usage, Donaldo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Donald. In Portuguese usage, Donaldo has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Дональд.

Walk Donaldo’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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